Topic: Sony's network issues

[darkjak951]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/116/1165399p1.html
Looks like the playstation network will be fixed by this or next week. We're getting the following as an apology:
-30 free days of Playstation Plus
-30 free days of Music Unlimited
-NEARLY full access to PSN
We also have to switch our account passwords next time we log on. Well this is nice and all but if you read further they say that the playstation store will be shut down for a while. If that's the case, then what is the purpose of the free playstation plus? What if it gets back up after the 30 days expire? I don't know about this but we'll wait and see. Overall though, what did you guys think of this whole situation in the past few weeks and their way of making up for it?

[Kale]

crappy, but i don't use psn, so I don't really care. But talk about being shafted.

[Abnormal Freak]

Well...hopefully I can get some use out of a PS+ trial, ha. Lotta titles I'd pick up at the discounted prices.

[Cypress]

I honestly don't care. They got hacked, data was encrypted. They took all the steps they needed to take to find the extent of the hack and get the system back online. I'm just tired of the bitching which is mainly instigated by crappy "journalists" that just want people to read their articles. 5+ articles on a single site in one day during which no new information was revealed is just stupid. I can't wait till the people who whined about it find out their subscription is up and they can no longer play the "free" playstation plus games. Anyone that didn't bitch though, I hope you take advantage of the discounts.

[Kale]

Wasn't this a big deal because the data was not encrypted?

[Cypress]

I meant to say credit card data. They got the address and name though. If you used a real one (I am still safe at the Kamiya dojo). My post was specifically about the people saying they got our card data and spreading miss information about it. Hackers gonna hack. They will be better prepared next time at least.

[Dracul]

The hackers were a professional job, it is reported that they got everything on the server including Sony's Decreption keys for blu-ray and games, name information, and account security questions, address, credit card number and yes even CVC2 numbers.  Its not blown out of proportion, personally I had a few accounts using the same password as i used on the PSN were accessed illegally from suspiscious countries within a week of this.  I have a friend who was locked out of a few of his accounts similarly.  Besides that I had to change my card number and cancel the old one.  I have heard people being charged on purchases they didn't make from locations they weren't at.  There is a class action lawsuit out that Sonys was neglegent in notification time for the data compromised and violates a direct law.  An astonishing 77 million accounts were found to be accessed, and then an additional 11 million were found later.  Other sony networks have been taken down due to security exploits this exposed.  This is the biggest data breach in history.  And it is malignant and criminal intended.  They are selling people's information.  I think this was not the same group that attacked sony earlier probably some criminal organization that noticed the weakness and was opportunistic.

All in all expect sony to suffer over 25 billion dollars over this incident that while only was noticed for three days, was technically accessible for up to two weeks it is rumored via the exploit released that allowed this.

If you want to be ultra paranoid some of the encyrption keys and technology is publically known to be used by our military so I wouldn't ruling out state actors involved in this either.  It was mentioned in a news article that one of our militarys secure super computers was being made out of playstation 3 technology cause it was cheaper, looks like that wasn't such a good idea perhaps.  I just hope its mostly criminal and not North Korea or Iran getting information they shouldn't have access to.  Our Military is heavily firewalled, but once a holes slips in its really hard to stop it without shutting down and overhauling the whole system, which is rarely done and hugely expensive.


So Yes this is a big $*(#$ing deal!

[Cypress]

Gotta call you on that. Sources please. Sounds like a lot of rumors as the list for $ turned out to be. Just cause it is said doesn't make it true.

[Abnormal Freak]

So, with the free games being offered, I really don't know what to get.

These being the PS3 games (in the US):

Dead Nation
inFAMOUS
LittleBigPlanet
Super Stardust HD
Wipeout HD + Fury

These the PSP ones:

LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
ModNation Racers
Pursuit Force
Killzone Liberation

From what I can gather, you can choose two each, unless it's actually two total.

I suppose I should just read about the games and watch some videos and decide which might be best, lol. But I'm a lazy-ass and want you folks to chime in and say which ones are good.

[JR]

Aside from Little Big Planet, I don't know what I'll get, either. Infamous is fairly fun...good for a heroic and evil playthrough each (although going either way doesn't change all that much of the game overall). Haven't played any of the others.

[Cypress]

I am getting lbp and modnation for psp.
I literally have all of the ps3 games. They are all available as downloads except lbp right? So I could get another disc based copy or are they going to put that as a download now in which case I would go for that?