In the wee hours of this morning a tipster contacted TSA, as well as PSU, with information as to why the PSN has been down for the last few days. Obviously we can’t validate the accuracy of this source, although screen grabs were provided showing his private conversation, apparently with a SCEE employee that he claims to have a close connection with.
This conversation yielded potentially new information, with the tipster stating that there was a “sustained LOIC attack on the PSN Store” and “a concentrated attack on PS servers holding account info”. We’re told that Admin Dev accounts were breached and the PSN was shut down by Sony, who are now in the process of restoring backups to new servers.
We’ve seen equally unsupported claims elsewhere that personal details, passwords and log history were breached, as well as the encrypted files storing credit card info. Apparently those card details are still secure because of the way they are encrypted but users’ personal info might have been attained during the attack. Obviously this is not confirmed and is based on hearsay but if true it is quite worrying.
Obviously this is all based on the claims of a source whose identity is unclear. As such, we’d advise you to be cautious about the validity. If true though, it could have very serious ramifications.
We would advise against anyone panicking based on these vague claims but there is some cause for concern and we would urge SCE to help set people’s minds at rest by making a more detailed official statement which either confirms or clearly denies the loss of data.
Source: Tipster
kingpowell
does anyone on here have even a rough idea as to how long this rebuilding/reinforcing could take.
fattyuk
YES!
The Lone Steven
it depends how much they are reinforcing, if it is a small section of PSN then it could be a few more days but if it is the entire thing then i’m guessing a week or two.
fattyuk
Course they don’t, no one does apart from Sony!
you can assume this assume that think this think that.
Who knows
1 day, 1 week, 1 month!?
so yeah dunno
squashme
apperantly Japan servers may be up and running by tomorrow with EU and US (been discriminated again) up the following day
BrendanCalls
In purely a PR sense I can see similarities between how Sony are handling this and how BP handled the oil spill. Obviously the actual events are not even comparable so before anyone jumps down my throat for comparing PSN outage to the oil spill. I’m not, just the PR handling of it.
skibadee
they said two days now they give a new update everyday what more do you want? maybe they should have left it on so everyone can have there info taken?
KeRaSh
I’m baffled as to how blindly some people trust Sony. I’m not concerned about my personal data and I’m not going to cry over a few days without PSN (which I rarely use anyways but I would really like to play Portal 2 on the PC with the code that came with my PS3 version…). However, some people here seem to not understand how shitty Sony is handling this whole situation. They are lying to us until enough information about the outage leaked so that they have to tell us some of the truth. I’m not asking for hourly updates or that they should tell us every small technical detail but they could be a little more specific.
Give us a rough ETA (are we talking about another 6 hours or more like another 2 days?) and let us know if we have to contact our banks to make sure that we’re not being billed thousands of dollars from some shady shop located in Nigeria.
djhsecondnature
They are lying to us are they? And you’re proof to back up this claim?
KeRaSh
Remember the DDoS attack? They told us it was sporadic maintenance. Yeah. Please don’t be so ignorant to Sony’s flaws.
squashme
another 2 days ? errrr its been 4 days now
cnutard
Assuming they have been able to get any CC details… Good luck to them with mine, I have less than £2 of my overdraft left :) Maybe they can pay it off for me?
Padre
Will you be saying the same when in a years time your CC details are sold on to another party and there is more money in your account for them to steal?
Now I don’t know if any CC or personal details have been breeched, but if it has then Sony have a legal duty to inform those people affected. Not that Sony actually have a great track record for respecting people’e privacy, ROOTKIT anybody?
Uhyve
Hell, Sony own Securom now, that’s way worse than a rootkit.
cnutard
Well even if Sony don’t tell us if they got details, as soon as any weird activity started my card it would get cancelled and I would either get my money back from the bank or Sony… And probably with a bit of compensation to smooth over the deal. But then again we are talking about Sony here.
Enzo DeGregorio
So, I can’t play Portal 2 co-op online and my personal details may have been obtained by hackers? Happy Easter, everybody.
xdarkmagician
“We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online. Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure. Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.” For future reference Sony, say this when you turn off the network… not 4 days later.
John Malcolm
I’ve heard enough. Now, unless I hear some definite statements from Sony saying that my account details are 100% safe, I’m contacting my bank first thing Tuesday morning to request a new credit card.
gazo69
I must admit I’m getting a little pissed at the lack of info on what has caused this!
ron_mcphatty
Its a bank holiday, I can’t ring my bank to put a block on PSN transactions and I can’t ring Sony or log onto PSN to remove my card details… lets hope thats not what they’re after!
E8_BALL_
once this blows over, with min casualties i hope, i suggest all TSAers, meet in home square square, for a virtual group (hug.).
i have never seen so many members logged on at once, some the first time i’ve seen.
it’s been quite a ride for us all. i just hope we all exit the rollercoster safely.
TheSpaceCowboy
I am so down for this!
Virtual Hugs > Sony