Playstation Network Hacked: Panic?

[Fabiano79]

Agreed

 

[Scios]

I want hard facts. Sick of this bs.

 

[SuperJay]

Yeah. My dad was confused because he couldn't get onto his netflix account, and thought it was a connection issue. He called Sony and they gave him the runaround for an hour without actually figuring anything out. Then he went on yahoo answers and learned the truth.

That is seriously. messed. up.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Changing your credit card is one thing. It's annoying as hell... But the worse is if you end up wondering whether or not your e-mail info and password and whatnot has been stolen, especially if you use the same e-mail on various systems. I know I try to change my password on different websites I use, but seriously, I have a document to keep track of all the websites I have accounts on and it's like 10 pages long... There is no way I'm going to have 10 pages worth of passwords and always have to refer back and figure out cross checking decoding what the password I used might be. This is so annoying too, with every website ever requiring you to have an account to do anything nowadays.

 

[salty mud]

I hope whoever's responsible for this is beat to withinthe full extent of the law.

 

[Luckymoose]

Good luck. Similar situation (except much smaller scale) happened to a XBox user a few years back. He sued, courts ruled in Microsofts favor. Precedent is set and is likely to be followed; so suing Sony is just a waste of money. You pretty much have to prove that there was negligence on Sony's part (AKA foreknowledge of the security hole) to get any type of money from them.

When you sign up for a service the contract guarantees they will protect your information. In a court of law the contractee is in the right.

 

[Maniacal]

The TOS for your playstation account includes a section on Sony NOT being responsible for situations like this. Though it would be interesting to see that tried it court (and I think someone has already started a lawsuit).

 

[Strider]

When you sign up for a service the contract guarantees they will protect your information. In a court of law the contractee is in the right.

I would recommend re-reading (or just reading) the EULA. Secondly users of PSN never signed a contract; there is a big difference between a contract and an EULA. Finally, as I said above, the precedent has already been set in the courts.

 

[Say_my_name]

Sony is still liable in some countries (like Germany) because it took them one week to actually tell customers that data was compromised.