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PlayStation®Network

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Valued PlayStation®Network/Qriocity Customer:

We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011,
certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account
information was compromised in connection with an illegal and
unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this
intrusion, we have:

1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;

2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full
and complete investigation into what happened; and

3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our
network infrastructure by rebuilding our system to provide you
with greater protection of your personal information.

We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill
as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and
efficiently as practicable.

Although we are still investigating the details of this incident,
we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following
information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country,
email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login,
and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data,
including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip),
and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may
have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your
dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have
been obtained. While there is no evidence at this time that credit
card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have
provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity,
out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit
card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have
been obtained.

For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email,
telephone and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive
information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email,
asking for your credit card number, social security number or other
personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information,
you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation
Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that
you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation
Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or
accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them as well.

To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we
encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and
to monitor your credit reports. We are providing the following information
for those who wish to consider it:
- U.S. residents are entitled under U.S. law to one free credit report annually
from each of the three major credit bureaus. To order your free credit report,
visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call toll-free (877) 322-8228.

- We have also provided names and contact information for the three major U.S.
credit bureaus below. At no charge, U.S. residents can have these credit bureaus
place a "fraud alert" on your file that alerts creditors to take additional steps
to verify your identity prior to granting credit in your name. This service can
make it more difficult for someone to get credit in your name. Note, however,
that because it tells creditors to follow certain procedures to protect you,
it also may delay your ability to obtain credit while the agency verifies your
identity. As soon as one credit bureau confirms your fraud alert, the others
are notified to place fraud alerts on your file. Should you wish to place a
fraud alert, or should you have any questions regarding your credit report,
please contact any one of the agencies listed below:

Experian: 888-397-3742; www.experian.com; P.O. Box 9532, Allen, TX 75013
Equifax: 800-525-6285; www.equifax.com; P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, GA 30374-0241
TransUnion: 800-680-7289; www.transunion.com; Fraud Victim Assistance Division,
P.O. Box 6790, Fullerton, CA 92834-6790

- You may wish to visit the website of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission at
www.consumer.gov/idtheft or reach the FTC at 1-877-382-4357 or 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580 for further information about how to protect
yourself from identity theft. Your state Attorney General may also have advice
on preventing identity theft, and you should report instances of known or
suspected identity theft to law enforcement, your State Attorney General,
and the FTC. For North Carolina residents, the Attorney General can be
contacted at 9001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-9001; telephone
(877) 566-7226; or www.ncdoj.gov. For Maryland residents, the Attorney
General can be contacted at 200 St. Paul Place, 16th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21202;
telephone: (888) 743-0023; or www.oag.state.md.us.

We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this
incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the
clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes
information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that
additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information.
Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is
our utmost priority. Please contact us at 1-800-345-7669 should you have any
additional questions.

Sincerely,

Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment

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LEGAL
"PlayStation" and the "PS" Family logo are registered
trademarks and "PS3" and "PlayStation Network" are
trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
© 2011 Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC.

Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
919 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404

Thanks, guys!

Nobody is safe from assholes. I remember having to go through and change passwords and shit after Gawker got hacked and also had to get a new bank account created after Paypal was compromised. This shit will happen as long as there are assholes around and you just have to deal with it as best you can.

Nobody is safe from assholes. I remember having to go through and change passwords and shit after Gawker got hacked and also had to get a new bank account created after Paypal was compromised. This shit will happen as long as there are assholes around and you just have to deal with it as best you can.

Gawker? Jeezie Petes.

Anyway, six days, dude...

Six days, that's ridiculous.

This post has been edited by radixius: Apr 27 2011, 04:13

I know man. Hell, I'm one of the people that actually paid for the Plus membership, so this is costing me money too (albeit a minuscule amount). Fretting over it won't speed things up and from what I've read, they hope to have functionality restored within a week. It could be longer still so we just gotta sit tight.

I don't use the PSN, as I've mentioned, hell, I don't even use XBL, I'm just appalled at their lackluster job at reporting important stuff like this.

As far as I'm concerned these gaming services could not come back up and I'd be pretty okay with that outcome, or they could be returned to service and that would be fine, too. Really sort of ambivalent to the outcome, but even the slimmest chance credit card numbers get out there, which they had suspected when this first happened, you drop everything else and let people know.

I don't disagree with that at all, I assume that any time something like this goes down that my information has probably been compromised and start running damage control if necessary. But yes, Sony should have done more with email, press releases or even pushing a notice to the consoles simply through an internet connection.

So raddy, what's the progress on your podcast project?

Still need a couple micro-bobs to use-inate.

i'm in for the weird sudden noises! *hurr*

Why the shit is there a picture of a broken hymen/bleeding vag on the front page?

Asked out of pure curiosity, of course.

w00t! The weather's nice out again. I can go work on my cardio today.

This post has been edited by Rob Itagaki: Apr 27 2011, 17:05

Translation; "Woo the nice, young boys."

w00t!

Oh, dear...

I'm in a good mood, hence the douchebaggery. I'll not do it again.

What is the point of l33t?

I'm in a good mood, hence the douchebaggery. I'll not do it again.

Fair enough. It happens sometimes.

What is the point of l33t?

To tell the Internet how big of a douchebag you are textually.

Fair enough. It happens sometimes.

I feels good, raddy. I feels damn good. Life's looking a little brighter these days.

To tell the Internet how big of a douchebag you are textually.
I feels good, raddy. I feels damn good. Life's looking a little brighter these days.

Gudonyamait.

sometimes i wish, we(the forum members) could meet in RL...
It could impossibly not be entertaining (double negation, duh...)

sometimes i wish, we(the forum members) could meet in RL...

I do not wish to meet you ever.