With 77 million accounts, it's probably easy to find at least 100 to 1000 people with stolen credit card numbers. Even the grocery store cashier can steal your number if that person have a good memory (or photographic memory).
I think they just will find some website that these guys hang at. Pressure the owners until some site gives access to their records. get IP address and track some of these guys down. Then shake these little brats up and scare them. Tell them if they don't rat out the guys involved, they might go to jail. Sooner or later, someone will crack. And these guys will be going to trial.
Yeah, it's harder on pin number, but security code is on the same card. And how many sites uses security code? You can still find alot that don't
All especially if they want to get paid. If you have a credit card making machine. You may be able to get away with something for a little while at local stores etc. But now a days most business's have camera's at their registers. So it doesn't take long to catch up with you. CC fraud is investigated by the Secret Service. The last thing you want is the Federal govt looking for you... I do a lot of on-line shopping and this security code policy has been in place for well over a year. Even at the smaller site's it's required if they want to get paid....
Thats a really good point kane--it went from NO announcement about personal/CC info....to an announcement via e-mails that BOTH were compromised....to an announcement suddenly that CC info WAS encrypted, but not other personal info....all from the same Sony Official within a few days time. Makes me wonder if they are just saying whatever sounds good to control PR damage as they have become known to do. You would think that they would know what was encrypted and what wasnt from the very beginning. I hope they realize in the end of all of this how important CLEAR communication with your customers and competent network management is, but somehow I'm not overly optimistic about either. :wacko:
Check to see how old your CC been on file there. Besides amazon is notorious for cutting corners. There was no password protection for your account for a long time. Meaning you could use any password and they let you in. They recently was forced to changed that policy...
I got the card last week. Also, I'm not limiting it to only the US. Alot of foreign sites don't take them.
I'm off topic here so just bear with me. I'm trying to make a point. "Who is the largest producers of counterfeit US currency in the world?" Hint they make billions every year...
Whatever?!? If the Hacker has my name, address and answers to security questions for PSN, where else does that info exist? What other sites of mine can they get into where my CC is already on file and ready for use!?! LOL. That today's triage. EDIT: Oh, that's right, that card number is defunct. I just need to watch other accounts where I might have used the same security questions/answers. ;D
Faga, to my experience, all the online purchases I get pretty much always want a security code. We are very lucky it wasn't in the same place as the rest of the cc data. btw guys, I'm pretty sure that after the first day, every decision sony makes, every word they say, it all gets sent for approval through their lawyers and possibly their vps. [video=youtube;Cwn4R_GexLM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwn4R_GexLM&[/video]
LOL. FF. I know you and most know that Kevin Butler is a character played by actor Jerry Lambert, but others should know that he's NOT real. FYI: Not all sites ask for the 3 digit code, just most.
I always thought those standard security questions was just not secured. Like your mother's maiden name. Banks started doing that 40+ years ago. Now some sites are allowing you to make your own security question a good move. So that was never Butler. Why not does he have two heads lol..
[video=youtube;ZTWWDm7OYJE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTWWDm7OYJE[/video] I think Iran is a huge counterfeiter.....
Thank you yes Fire Iran and North Korea. My point being there will always be scammers. But most really bad stuff comes from other governments. It hasn't been proven yet. But certain countries have tried CC fraud. But they found the systems in place are too secure for them to exploit. So in the world of fraud this is just a speed bump. It will never end. But we and SONY and Home will survive. I just hope we'll be back on soon...
I've been on break for the past 2 weeks so I'm doing very well. riginal: At least I didn't have to worry about spending my entire break on Home. Some time would have been nice though. Oh well...hope to be seeing everyone there soon.
Looks like we will be seeing a new firmware update. I wouldn't be surprised to see Home needing an update too since it will have to connect to a new altered PSN network.
The firmware update was a given. As far as Home it will be fine I hope. What's more exciting to me is their installing new server farms at a secure location. Hopefully they'll use better reward system so people will stop losing reward items etc etc. I look at it as a new and improved PSN...
I just hope that it doesn't include a whole new selection of disconnect error codes. At least not ones that I'll be seeing on a regular basis.
