QUOTE (kenneally_mark @ Apr 27 2011, 10:41 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Sony in a slight spot of bother now I'd be staying offline with Playstation at the moment if I had one!!!
Play away Mark as if your details are submitted they are submitted
Very surprised at Sony to be caught out like this. Perhaps genuine hack, perhaps disgruntled employee or a leak. It will be very hard to recover from this as online play will continue to be the future and if people don't feel secure then they won't sign up to Sony at least. Real shame.
I hope they sort it out as this is not only bad news for Sony but it is a major set back in general as once people see a major corporation like Sony being intruded then it casts doubt in peoples mind over any online transaction.
In most cases hackers just want the kudos to have been able to show their abilities and are not interested in the data they find. If this was however a specific attack for nothing other than theft then it will be a different story.