Sony turns off the service Sony Online Entertainment
The Sony Online Entertainment network, used for online multiplayer games like EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies and Matrix Online, was temporarily suspended, a company spokesman said Monday. Add to this the 77 million accounts whose data could be stolen, and it turns out that Sony is responsible for one of the biggest cases of loss of personal data of users.
The game network is separate from the PlayStation Network, but the hacking mechanisms have similar features, explained Mai Gore, a representative of Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo.
Last week, Sony announced that the attackers may have gotten the credit data of PlayStation Network and Qriocity users, but these numbers were encrypted. Now Sony reports that some credit card numbers may have been taken from various databases. But whether these databases were encrypted is not specified.
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“Hackers gained access to an outdated 2007 database,” says a press release from Sony.
This database includes card numbers and their service dates for 12,700 customers located outside the United States - in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.
Sony has been clearing the hacking consequences for a week already. On Sunday, the head of the gaming department apologized for the hacking and said that the information about the hacker attack and the hacking of the credit card database had been transferred to the investigators.
Last week, there were rumors in hacker forums that the attackers had numbers of millions of credit cards, but Sony claims that this is not the case. “There is no evidence that our main credit card database was stolen. It is stored separately, in a protected environment, ”said a Sony spokesman on Monday.
The game network is separate from the PlayStation Network, but the hacking mechanisms have similar features, explained Mai Gore, a representative of Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo.
Last week, Sony announced that the attackers may have gotten the credit data of PlayStation Network and Qriocity users, but these numbers were encrypted. Now Sony reports that some credit card numbers may have been taken from various databases. But whether these databases were encrypted is not specified.
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“Hackers gained access to an outdated 2007 database,” says a press release from Sony.
This database includes card numbers and their service dates for 12,700 customers located outside the United States - in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.
Sony has been clearing the hacking consequences for a week already. On Sunday, the head of the gaming department apologized for the hacking and said that the information about the hacker attack and the hacking of the credit card database had been transferred to the investigators.
Last week, there were rumors in hacker forums that the attackers had numbers of millions of credit cards, but Sony claims that this is not the case. “There is no evidence that our main credit card database was stolen. It is stored separately, in a protected environment, ”said a Sony spokesman on Monday.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/118699/
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