In Tokyo, Sony sent out a press release that didn’t provide much information regarding an ETA on when PSN will be up, but it did provided the actual figures of how many credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the hack. It appears over 20,000 card numbers were taken and Sony has also detailed all other information obtained from the PSN community as well.
his information, which was discovered by engineers and security consultants reviewing SOE systems, showed that personal information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen, as well as certain information from an outdated database from 2007. The information from the outdated database that may have been stolen includes approximately 12,700 non-U.S. credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes), and about 10,700 direct debit records of certain customers in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain.
The personal information of the approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts that was illegally obtained, to the extent it had been provided to SOE, is as follows:
name
address
e-mail address
birthdate
gender
phone number
login name
hashed password.
In addition to the information above, the 10,700 direct debit records from accounts in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain, include:
bank account number
customer name
account name
customer address.
SOE will grant customers 30 days of additional time on their subscriptions, in addition to compensating them one day for each day the system is down. It is also in the process of outlining a “make good” plan for its PlayStation®3 MMOs (DC Universe Online and Free Realms). More information will be released this week.
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Rian Quenlin
Far less than what I originally expected the number to be. Regardless, they need to do a lot more than a month’s subscription, this is identity theft waiting to happen on a global scale. A very difficult thing to resolve.