Sony’s James Gallagher has confirmed over on the EU Blog that, once the PlayStation Network is finally back up and running again, whatever you had before will still be there.
Some had thought that their Trophy count would be reset and they’d need to rebuild their friend lists – thankfully, this isn’t the case. “When PSN is restored,” said Gallagher speaking on behalf of SCEE, “friends lists, trophies and wallet funds will all be exactly as they were before.”
This is hardly unexpected – Sony’s security might have meant that your personal details and credit card information was compromised, but the shutdown of the authentication servers meant that nobody could log in or out using that data, so your accounts will be identical once you get back in.
The first class action lawsuit appeared this evening – customers aren’t happy with the massive leak of crucial, personal information and are demanding compensation. Whatever happens, this won’t be easy for Sony.
As we’ve said before – be vigilant. Keep a close watch on your bank account and seriously consider taking out ID Theft protection.
Mentality
Wow that really makes me feel better…
Flash
In 2 months everything will be back to normal and all will be good again. It’s just one of them things.
(Obviously the network won’t take 2 months to get back on but to get everything settled again)
Andrewww
Well… I actually don’t care too much about my credit card details, got some couple of thousand bucks refunded some years ago, when my card details were stolen and I noticed it on my monthly bill.
But losing trophies, that would’ve been bad, really bad…! Even if I enjoyed every hour put into Killzone 2, it would still hurt to lose this platinum…
I still trust Sony on this one.
G_The_Enemy14
CONSTANT VIGILANCE. That is all.
colmshan1990
Fat lot of good that did Moody.
Bunch of amputations, imprisoned for a year, and killed in the 7th book. :P
Mr-Flame-Head
earlier today i recieved the email from sony, to some degree im actually very lucky as my bank changed my account type and as such the card details registered with my account are no longer correct, still gonna phone my bank tomorrow to make sure the card number is deffinately now dead just to be on the safe side
TSBonyman
I’m hoping a tiny glitch in the rebuild/reboot will make those 0% complete games disappear from my list.
In addition, i may only find myself able to forgive Sony if they facilitate the engineering of an update to give MGS4 trophies and make it playable from a single install. ;)
MrTwP
You hackers can have my credit card details, and my mothers maiden name… But i swear to god you lay one hand on my trophies…
skibadee
looking forward to when they switch it back on.
Sympozium
If anyone took away my precious trophies, I’d be pissed off but since they’re just data I don’t really care… I want rewards
moshi
Yay, my pointless trophies are safe.
Bilbo_bobbins
ha ha, spot on.