PlayStation Network: Credit Card Details with Hackers
According to one source in the dirty underbelly
Despite Sony (and most security experts) reassuring us of the unlikelihood that PSN users' credit card details could have got into the wild during the recent 'unpleasantness', it seems that a group of hackers are selling more than information relating to 2.2 million such bits of info.
PSX-Scene reports that:
"Rumors are following thru various underground 'credit card' trading forums, and on the new #psnhack twitter list that a large section of the PSN database containing complete personal details along with over 2.2million working credit card numbers with the much-needed CVV2 code are being offer up for sale to the highest-bidder, after the 'hackers' tried to sell the DB back to Sony for a price, but they of course didn't answer!"
We're not sure why the phrases 'credit card' and 'hackers' are in quotes in that story. We are equally uncertain why, as reported, "Sony was supposedly offered a chance to buy the DB back but didn't".
Source: PSX-Scene
PSX-Scene reports that:
"Rumors are following thru various underground 'credit card' trading forums, and on the new #psnhack twitter list that a large section of the PSN database containing complete personal details along with over 2.2million working credit card numbers with the much-needed CVV2 code are being offer up for sale to the highest-bidder, after the 'hackers' tried to sell the DB back to Sony for a price, but they of course didn't answer!"
We're not sure why the phrases 'credit card' and 'hackers' are in quotes in that story. We are equally uncertain why, as reported, "Sony was supposedly offered a chance to buy the DB back but didn't".
Source: PSX-Scene
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Sony 29 Apr 2011 10:10
1/5
Thats all total bull
Stuart 29 Apr 2011 10:20
2/5
what a load of s*#t, as if, what will people think of next to say?
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DrkStr 1 May 2011 20:02
3/5
That's crap, they can't have the cvv number because its never saved anywhere!
config 2 May 2011 09:09
4/5
Smacks of fudmongery from Sony haters or competitors.
Storing CVV is against all codes of conduct set out by card issuers, so it should never be stored as DrkStr wrote.
However, that doesn't mean it's *impossible* to store it, if someone were stupid enough to do so.
Storing CVV is against all codes of conduct set out by card issuers, so it should never be stored as DrkStr wrote.
However, that doesn't mean it's *impossible* to store it, if someone were stupid enough to do so.
Niko 2 May 2011 12:18
5/5
yeah some 'professional' detective goes to the 'underground' of the internet, the 'hacker black market' and finds someone claiming to have 2.2million credit card numbers. what he really found was some trolls trolling the living daylights out of him. but hey its front page news.
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