Sony said on Thursday that they have suffered a security breach on the PlayStation Network. The attack targeted the PlayStation Store, a content download service of the PSN.
Sony admits to security breach on their PlayStation Network (IMG:J.Anderson)
“Although unlikely, it is possible that the passwords of a small percentage of PlayStation Network users may have been changed through unauthorized access, making it possible to view users' personal information and/or use the Wallet for the PlayStation Store,” the company statement said.
Sony said that credit compromise was “unlikely” because the full credit card number was not completely displayed on customer’s accounts. “PlayStation Network accounts do not display entire credit card numbers, so any unauthorized access to your PlayStation Network account is very unlikely to compromise your credit card number.”
“In order to verify that your account is intact, we strongly suggest that PlayStation Network users sign in to the service. If you can successfully sign in with your pre-set password, your account is not affected by this incident,” the company said.
Anyone who can not access his or her account is encouraged to visit the Sony Knowledgebase. (http://tinyurl.com/yvxc2h)
Sony did not disclose exactly what steps were taken to correct the security failures, or how they were alerted to the breach. “We have taken immediate measures to rectify this issue and system security is restored,” is their only comment on the matter.
This incident is freakishly close to a scenario that Dr. Taher Elgamal, Chief Technology Officer of Tumbleweed Communications Corp. described in a recent interview.
“It is, perhaps unfortunately, normal that security measures are only deployed after a sequence of bad events have happened. The technical community expected and still expects that more security breaches will continue to happen until the appropriate technologies and awareness programs are fully deployed to mitigate the risk of data breaches,” he said.
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