Better safe than Sony

An american investigation has revealed that Sony knew about the securityflaws -and chose not to fix them.

Apparently security experts discovered several forumtopics which discussed PSN's lacking security.
These forums showed that PSN used Apache Web Server software, which either was patched or had firewalls installed, and the forums was monitored by Sonys employees for two to three months without taking any actions.

The investigators even saw posts on criminal forums which said that the value on information from Sony had sunk because it was too easy to obtain.

Playstation h4ck3d!!! -Again

It's almost two weeks since Sony was hacked and perhaps millions of peoples information was leaked. Now Sony is hacked again.

It wasn't until this weekend that Sony held a press conference and apoligized for the security breach.
Kazuo Hirai said that it is not clear if the users credit card information is endangered but as much as ten million players credit cards may be in danger. He also said that they are rebuilding Playstation 3's securitysystem with more firewalls, better and faster ways to encrypt data and discover hackerattacks.

At monday, we got to know that Sony had been hacked again, this time Sony Online Entertainment was the target. Station.com was shut down and up to 24 million users can be affected.
Sony says that the hackers managed to lay their hands on old databases from 2007 where almost 13 000 users credit card information was stored. These accounts are from Holland, Germany, Austria and Spain, at this moment it's unsure if the main database is affected.

As a bribe, Sony is gifting "special selected content" which can be downloaded for free. Also a free month of Playstation Plus will be awarded.

Sony: We're sorry!

Sony announced on Sunday that parts of the PlayStation Network will be back online this week and gamers will receive compensation for not being able to log on, due to the hacking of PSN.

Sony executives also apologized for the breach, and they're conducting a thorough and ongoing investigation into the matter and once the PlayStation Network is restored online, users will have to change their account passwords before being able to log into the service. The update will require users to change their passwords on the PS3 on which the account was activated, or through e-mail validation.

To thank customers for their patience and loyalty, Sony announced they would offer PlayStation Network users 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus service, which provides access to exclusive games, beta trials for games and other nice stuff.

Current subscribers to the PlayStation Plus service, don't worry. You will receive an additional 30 days for free. :)

Playstation h4ck3d!!!

17th to 19th April some Playstation networks and Qriocity services got hacked and user information was stolen.
Information that may have been stolen:

• Name
  
• Profile information
• Adress (City, state and zip)
• Country
• Email
• Birthday
• PSN password and login
• Securityquestion and answer

Sony says on their official blog that you should keep and eye out for hightened risks for frauds due to the breach.
Sony won't contact you in any way, including email, and ask for credit card information and such.

Change password and wait for further updates from Sony.