+ Patrick Seybold on May 2nd, 2011 at 2:50 pm said: Those security questions will not be used. As an added layer of security, the password can only be reset on the hardware in which it was created, or through a validated email confirmation. If necessary, Customer Service representatives have alternative methods of validating accounts, but the primary means will be through the console on which the account was created.
I just read that PSN passwords are NOT encrypted. Sony has confirmed this. BUT it also wasn't stored as plain text. A "hash" of the password is stored. A hash looks like a scrambled jumble of letters and number like "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY". You input your password, the ps3 uses an algorithm to create a scrambled looking HASH. And it's the hash that sony stores on it's server. Each time you log in, a hash is created and compared to the hash stored in the database. But the algorithm only works one way. You can't take a hash, and figure out what the password is. So hackers can't figure out our passwords. we really are safe from having our accounts stolen. But i think confidence has been lost in Sony.. And changing our passwords makes us feel more secure. But it won't make us any more secure. Our passwords are already safe.
I think they all took 30days off on Vacation and then come back wait another 30days and still they don't have a clue what to do... Then after 2011 comes to an end... They wish us all a Final Farewell and a Big Screw U! I can see it now...
You appear to be misinformed (much akin to the media circuits). The outdated SOE data that was stolen was gathered during the initial breach, there was not a second attack. Almost every article I've read about it has been blowing it out of proportion, each one leading to the notion of another major data breach when its simply not the case.
Since Sony's evidence says that Anonymous did this, then Anonymous must have some very rich super geniuses.
We all know it was a 13yr old NOOB who didn't like Home! This is why School's need to take Computers outta of the Classrooms! LOL!
Yes, because Sony ONLY have the Playstation, they don't deal in ANY other area of electronics /sarcasm
Its still all speculation at this point. There have been so many conspiracy theories and so forth. Personally, my theory is that it was not Anonymous, but a group who took advantage of Anonymous' threats to use them as a scapegoat.
Here is the actual report from Kaz Hirai to the US House of Reps Kazuo Hirai's Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives - a set on Flickr
In response to the fact that Sony found a file called "Anonymous" on their hacked server ith the words "We are Legion", Anonymous has released a statement "Sony is incompetent," the group said. "While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility."
Sony hired 3 firms to secure their network and investigate the hacking Data Forte LA computer forensics lab that is led by a former NCIS special agent (Is that you, Abby? McGee?) Guidance Software software designers and data investigations into security breaches Protiviti a risk consulting and internal audit firm
