Security Breach on Sony PlayStation NetworkBest Security Tips offers daily news, information, advices and tips about spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, web vulnerabilities, hackers, other threats    Fix Network Security Flaws on Your Biz Network - Trial | Register now | Login
   
TIPS NEWS TOOLS DOWNLOADS MALWARE FORUM BOOKS FREE MAGAZINES FREE WEBCASTS & VIDEOS
GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner - Dld 30-day trial! del.icio.us  digg  Furl  NewsVine  Spurl  Blinklist  Ma.gnolia  Reddit  Tailrank  YahooMyWeb 
Best Tips
Security Scanner
Security Categories
Advertise With Us!
Latest Viruses / Threats
Downloads
RSS / Atom Feeds
Security Incidents : Security Breach on Sony PlayStation Network
Posted by Max on 2008/3/29 16:08:58 (525 reads)
Security Incidents

The PlayStation Network users received a word of warning from Sony. The alarm signal refers to a possible breach in the security. Because of it, the legitimate users’ private details can be accessed by the wrong people.

On the official PlayStation website, regarding the consumer alerts section, immediately appeared a statement given by Sony: "We have found out that there has been a possibility of unauthorized access to personal information on the PlayStation Store through PCs, a content download service of the PlayStation Network".

And this is not all. It is possible that passwords might have been changed and unauthorized people could have looked through user’s personal data.

Here are again the exact words expressing the concerning: "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". Yet, although unauthorized users have passed the security measures, full credit card numbers aren’t displayed by PlayStation Store.

Of course, according to Sony, the necessary, "immediate measures", have been taken for appropriately solving the security related problem.

Serious investigations are taking place in the same time. Sony desires to find out if "the extent of unauthorized access and possible alteration of passwords that could have occurred before corrective measures were taken, and are directly contacting customers who may have been affected by this incident". Costumers must be announced about this issue.

More, Sony gave them the advice of trying to sign into the service, in order to assure their account wasn’t broke up or damaged.




Other articles
2008/10/9 14:10:42 - Google Trends Used to Promote Fake Anti-Virus Software
2008/10/9 13:50:47 - Spam, Child Porn, Illegal Pharmaceuticals, and Stolen Data Make The Web Axis of Evil
2008/10/8 12:22:22 - New Anti-Phishing Service by BluePrint On National Cyber Security Awareness Month
2008/10/7 16:17:07 - Adware Released As Fake Antivirus Increases
2008/10/2 15:30:28 - Agnitum's Outpost Security Suite Pro Gains Another VB100% (on Windows Server 2008)
2008/10/2 15:21:49 - New FREE Security Tools From Verizon
2008/9/30 17:45:27 - SkyRecon Adds Anti-Virus Protection (AVP) to Its StormShield Security Suite
2008/9/30 17:32:11 - IdentitySecure, The New Identity Theft Protection Program from Affinion
2008/9/30 17:13:08 - Web Application Security Mythbusters by Cenzic Inc.
2008/9/30 17:03:58 - Disk Doctors Announces Support For The Hurricane IKE and Gustav victims

The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.