If you haven't heard, the PlayStation Network has been done since April 20th. For the course of this week, Sony had not been entirely forthcoming with information, slowly updating the news in dribs and drabs. As it turns out hackers got into the online service and obtained all personal information that was given at the time of one's account creation. This information includes: your name, address, phone number, email address, password, security question and answers, as well as the credit card numbers that was used with the account. This is highly unacceptable. It look Sony a week to make any announcement detailing what happened and, even now, most people do not know exactly what happened. The only news coverage that has spoken about it is gaming sites.
So, the question is should we trust Sony or the PlayStation brand again? Most people I know have been buying PlayStation products since the original PlayStation and have several PlayStation Network games. There is no doubt that in my mind that some of those people will trade in their systems and move on to either the Wii or the Xbox 360, or even not use their credit cards for the system anymore. The only other choice would be to buy items with PSN gift cards rather than giving your credit card. However, how many "casual" gamers will actually go out and purchase the cards?
The lack of information that has been given out is certainly another problem. People will need to change their information. Starting with the password on their email account if they use the same password on their email address or any other account. People will need to cancel or heavily monitor their credit card for a couple of weeks. Doing so thankfully is very easy and credit cards can be cancelled by a quick phone call. However, sometimes this can reflect negatively on individual's credit reports. Which is also not a good thing.
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - omar
Give us the new black ops maps for free.that's how ull sell a lot of people instead of giving free stuff to ur playstation plus members.not everyone is a playstationplus member I knw I'm not and many others aren't either
2 - Tim
Then if you didn't pay, there is no need to give you anything for free. Its a free service...go find a hobby.
3 - popsicle
give black ops maps for free would be good cause im 9 yers oldd and this maks me madd that i cant play cause i want to be like witeboy 7 street wen im olderr
4 - Tim
Anyone who trades thier ps3 in because they can't get online, without a doubt, is a tool.
5 - Zach
Actually CNN.com has covered the situation in a few short articles. Im not too worried about it... Sony is building up their security now that they have learned it has been hacked... Just change card info and passwords, and you're good to go. I just want PSN back so I can play my beloved Battlefield BC2!
6 - nick
If you have read this article do not listen to it. almost all of the info stated is completely worng. examples-
1. it did not take a week for sony to say what happened. Try 4 days. it took that long because even sony was still learning all about what exactly happened.
2. CREDIT CARD INFO WAS NOT STOLEN!!!!! there is virtually no chance this happened as that data was protected and sony cannot find any evidence of stolen credit cards. 3. Everyone knows exactly what happened because sony said exactly what happened
4. Unlike what this article says, sony has provided more than enough info on the situation. They update their blog at least once a day.
5. quote form article- "Of course Sony is not commenting on any of this right now." Again, read their blog.
6. there are multiple typos in the first paragraph so whoever wrote this wasnt paying attention.
Please do not listen to this article. I read articles almost exactly identical to this 2 adys after PSN went down, which shows that the writer is not paying attention to sony's information and is instead trying to make them out to be some evil company that wont tell anyone whats happening. I beg to differ. Shinmigami, (writer of article) you do not know what you are talking about. I suggest you do some research before you try to write another article on the status of PSN.
7 - ryan
well it been about 2 weeks for me saying psn gone under mainantce
8 - Silent Rage
Well everyones name, address, phone number is all open to anyone at anytime with the lovely freedom of information act. Anyone who has ever used a cc at any store has put their own info out to anyone because all it takes is 1 employee to look at the registry of any customer who used a cc and their card number is right there along with expiration date AND 3 digit code from the back. Sony serves never had the 3 digit code and without that ur card is pretty useless. I for one do trust Sony and will keep trusting until given a reason not to. Any jerk off with a computer can hack, just takes someone more determined then others to get what they want. People need to become smarter in the things they do with there money and stop living on plastic alone.
9 - Changes4444
Think about it.....what's happened to Sony is inevitable; there is so much technology and knowledge out there -surprised it hasn't happened sooner. The hackers are only hurting the players, not Sony -they have insurance and of course they will be ok.
10 - Shinmigami
I read the psn blog all the time. It went down on the 20th, the did not mention anything about what really happened was from the 27th and still we do not know what will happen to alot of the services. Like if there is money left on our accounts, are our trophies still going to be there, etc. Other reports have mentioned the fact that our cards were encrypted, that is the only fact that they do not have your credit card. However, if the data was not with the other packet they should not have mentioned anything about having people change their credit card numbers and putting more protection on your credit.
You also taking number 6 out of context. I was commenting on the fact that there is no mention about how developers and us gamers are going to be compensated. All we have is what is written in the TOS which basically states that if anything were to happen to the PSN Sony does not have to give us anything.
11 - Zach
*Agrees with nick*
12 - nick
really? 2 weeks
13 - nick
Whatever you just said about number 6 doesn't make sense. All I said was that there were a lot of typos. Nothing about compenstation from Sony. And Zach, thank you for agreeing with me.
14 - A random guy
I dont see why you want us to change from ps3 and other sony products to wii or xbox! 1. Wii is retarded, only crappy games for little children. 2. Xbox live costs money, so thats just waisting. I agree with Nick, whoever who wrote this havent payed attention and should read at sonys blog before writhing sh*t about sony and the playstation.
15 - nick
See that Shinmigami, I'm not the only one who thinks these things!
16 - worst nightmare
You all need to just chill the F OUT. this will be fixed before no time and i will get back on to cod or bfbc2 and merk u all dont worry!
17 - keith
will they should give us a brake on internet bill becouse some people have internet just becouse of ps3 i don't play it on more becouse of that
18 - Silent Rage
What does "outside intrusion" mean to u #11? I think anyone with a brain knows hackers. Sorry but ur idea of it being the 27, u fail sir.
19 - nick
@worstnightmre-
I'm no very upset at all about PSN being down. I am just mad that someone would write an article like this that is almost completely untrue.
20 - Shadowphoenix21
I'm still a Playstation fan. Always was, always will be. And I laughed so hard when the article said, "...those people will trade in their systems and move on to either the Wii..." Haha. The Wii is the biggest downgrade for any gamer, hardcore or not. And yes, I own all three. Prefer PS3 over the rest. Still, I would love for Sony to compensate in some way.
21 - nick
O.K. Shinmigami you are right. #6 is a little out of context because when i first read the article i was thinking that you meant they were not commenting on the status of PSN, which is what you talked about after you said sony wasn't commenting. sorry for the misunderstanding. Still, the rest of my reasons are completely valid.
22 - ...
Nick is right..this article is complete nonsense and sounds like it could've been written by a child. The grammer is horrible and half the content of the article is speculation..
23 - nick
i am glad you all agree with me. i bet my comment (#7) will be deleted soon because this website doesnt want people to trash their articles. oh well...
24 - Silent Rage
Looks like its time for this site to get a new writer cause this one knows nothing of what he/she speaks.
25 - COWBOY
I CANT WAIT UNTIL IT GETS BACK AND WHO EVER DID IT IS A BITCH