DARK BAWGS Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Last year Sony Corporation got hacked and some customer private information was compromised, so I understand. Now in the past two weeks the PSN has been hacked twice. I would have thought after the first instance a corporation as large as they are with the resources they have they could have patched the system to prevent future compromises. Anyone that has provided their CC info to PSN should be monitoring the Credit Card accounts daily to ensure they don't get compromised. I hope I am over reacting, but being prepared is much better than being sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzy clam Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 This is exactly why people should stick to PSN cards to pay for shit on the playstation network,as they have proven themselves to be a pretty east target. And there is no such thing as "being to careful" when it comes to that shit IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK_Wildcats_Fans Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 As exploits are discovered, it takes a while to develop patches and updates. In addition, typically, larger entities (corporations, institutions, governments, etc.) take longer to update their systems with all the various updates and patches that come out. They have to prove out that they work and establish availability to take systems down, testing, etc. Therefore, there will always be some level of vulnerability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akic Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I wouldn't trust any company that allowed 100 TERAbytes of data to be copied from their systems. Security is hard especially in a large corporation but even after the breach the attackers spent a year on their systems undetected. Piss poor effort by Sony, I wouldn't even trust them to look after a piggy bank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DARK BAWGS Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 As exploits are discovered, it takes a while to develop patches and updates. In addition, typically, larger entities (corporations, institutions, governments, etc.) take longer to update their systems with all the various updates and patches that come out. They have to prove out that they work and establish availability to take systems down, testing, etc. Therefore, there will always be some level of vulnerability. I agree, in my career I was a Sr. Executive with a Fortune 100 Corporation and I know how slowly the wheels turn. The first breach took place some time ago and I would have thought as a technology company they would have pulled out all the stops to prevent further incursions. I realize that this may be a totally different approach, and they will need time to solve the problem. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK_Wildcats_Fans Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Assuming that they were hacked as Phantom Squad takes responsibility, it would have been a new vulnerability. I would also assume that after the last major hack, they restructured their system to minimize the effect. If they were hacked, I assume that Sony took down the system to find how it was hacked, clean and rebuild the system along with patching whatever vulnerability was discovered. If this was the case, 1 day was a pretty quick turnaround. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAmMoDBoX Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 A DDOS attack isn't necessarily a hack, anyone can do it provided the right resources and it's really simple to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillinger Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Slightly off topic, but in the same vain. Don't assume it's just a company like Sony or MSFT. I have a nightmare story for those that are paranoid of identity theft. JD made a change to his cable service about 2-2.5 years back. I don't even remember WHAT we changed, but it involved a trip to the house to swap out the boxes and upgrade the connections (which is just industry terms for looking at them to make sure they are "new" models). No big deal, no problems, everything was fine. About 2 weeks went by, no problems. Then I got a call from a local mortgage company wanting me to come down and verify some information about a loan I requested. Interesting as I'm pretty careful about my online stuff and I didn't request a mortgage based loan. I'm 2 hours away in downtown Seattle and the company is down in the same town where the wife works. Okay, maybe she was thinking about doing something and we discussed it in passing or whatever, no worries right? Wrong. On the train on the way home I got a call from a Detective with the Tacoma PD. He told me he was holding a video image of a black me signing for $3,800 worth of stuff from a Home Depot. I happen to be other than white, as is my driver's license, so this raised some concerns when the same man was photographed at Lowe's across town signing for a bunch of other shit. Fast forward 2 weeks. $36,000 was the total before I was able to get everything closed and reissued and protected and sanitized. They opened accounts anywhere you could get instant access. Something like $1300 at a Staples, a home electronics store for $4,000, an online personal vacation loan for $6500. The list went on and on. Turns out we have a pretty big ring of Eastern Bloc wannabe mobsters in this area and identity theft is something like a 3 Billion dollar a year growth opportunity. And here is the fucking kicker. They pay people that work at call centers to slide them names, addresses and other information on accounts that have high credit ratings, high monthly bills with regular payments, and the like. Hundreds of names/account packages A WEEK! The detective was already on their tail, which was how he was able to get in touch with me so fast as it was happening. They ended up sentencing (3) of the people with the ring leader getting 86 months. The guy who did the purchasing and all the signing for my name, ended up getting like 67 months, which wasn't anywhere near what I had hoped. As he never kept any of the stuff (they suspect he "worked" for the dude in trade for spending money and drugs) he wasn't able to be prosecuted beyond the act of purchasing under a false identity and fraud. It took some time, and thank god they never breached my banking or retirement accounts, but we were never on the verge of losing everything or any of those horror stories. It took about 18-19 months to go all the way through the courts, "close" the case, and get all the stuff on my credit report changed back. It was more annoying than anything, because every single day it was a paranoid habit checking of every account, every credit service (I bought two credit monitoring plans during this time, because one is none) and going to the mailbox each day was a rage inducing cycle. Ever vigilant my friends. They fucking leeches are everywhere and looking to take some of your hard gained success for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK_Wildcats_Fans Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 WOW - Terrible story. My credit union monitors my accounts very actively. They have replaced my credit card 3 times in the past 2 years because people using those damn credit card readers. I found out that most of them seem to be related to standalone ATMs, which is why I won't use them now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzy clam Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Yeah I have had my info compromised also by of all thing the IRS.So they set up 4 years of credit monitoring for free but claimed the breach wasn't thru them...lol Lots of fucked up charges on line but the situation was fixed,filed police report and all is golden till the next time it happens.And yes I also have 2 credit monitoring companies keeping an eye on my stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillinger Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Great reminder UK_Wildcats: Don't use your personal checking ATM at gas station pumps or stand alone ATMs if you can help it. Always use a credit card in case of a reader. I can tell you from recent experience it's a LOT easier and less paperwork to get a charge on your credit card reversed than get money BACK into your primary (mortgage, car payments, food) account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzy clam Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Great reminder UK_Wildcats: Don't use your personal checking ATM at gas station pumps or stand alone ATMs if you can help it. Always use a credit card in case of a reader. I can tell you from recent experience it's a LOT easier and less paperwork to get a charge on your credit card reversed than get money BACK into your primary (mortgage, car payments, food) account. Yeah agreed as they get your ATM card they can drain your account with no reimbursement and with a credit card,well the credit card covers it 100 % Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JConnor Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Another good idea is to have separate accounts. Have one specifically for charges e.g. Checking / Credit Cards and a separate savings, IRA, etc. This way, if you are compromised, the douche bags only get some of your money and not all of it. There is a joke that never goes out of style, but holds true even more in this digital age: "If thieves stole my bank account, they'd pay me money to make it worth their while". This is what I mean when I write, don't put all of your eggs in one basket. Literally and metaphorically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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