May 7, Tokyo, Sony said on Saturday it had removed from the Internet the names and partial addresses of 2,500 sweepstakes contestants that had been stolen by hackers and posted on a website, and said it did not know when it could restart its PlayStation video games network
"The website was out of date and inactive when discovered as part of the continued attacks on Sony," Sony said, adding that the company took the website down shortly after finding out about the postings on Thursday.
Thankfully, the released information contains not that much information, it doesn't include credit cards, social security numbers, and password. Nonetheless, there's some personal information released there, and who knows if anyone managed to stumble upon it before it's taken down, and actually saved the list.
Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer apologised on Friday to users of the firm's PlayStation Network and other online services, breaking his silence on the massive data breach.
The company said last Sunday that it would begin restoring services within the week but a spokeswoman said on Saturday this would not be possible, and that no date had been fixed for when services would resume.
Quite a number of Sony players are already getting frustrated, some has even moved to the 360. But quoted from someone, "If you ditch PS3 just because it was down for a week, it's just like ditching your wife because it's in a one week coma".
Source:
Reuters
how do i find out if my name was on that list
ReplyDeletewait i think i read that wrong,,what does this have to do with the 77million psn users
ReplyDeleteThere's practically no way to know for sure now. After all, the web is taken down, and I haven't got the chance to save the list.
ReplyDeleteAnd... this news is simply about the list that was released by the hackers. No connection with the 77 million PSN users. ( Unless of course, that the 2500 contacts released is from the PSN users data )