BBC Tech Editor Tweets Sony PSN "Phising Campaign"

As if Sony wasn't getting enough flak, the BBC News Interactive's Business and technology editor, Tim Weber decided to Tweet a new PSN phishing hack this morning before being forced to retract.

This started with one misinformed tweet from Weber:

"Just got an email helpfully providing me w a link to reset my Playstation Network password. Fine, except I've never had one. #phishing"

However, Weber was then made aware that possibly, just possibly a little research goes a long way. And then tweeted:

"Hmm, @mikkohypponen tells me the Sony "phishing" email is genuine. A namesake of mine must have submitted the wrong email address"

This was then picked up by security specialist F-Secure in a story it's been running regarding Sony apparently - and unknowingly - hosting a phising site on one of its servers in Thailand. Security specialist F-Secure has pointed out that, "Basically this means that Sony has been hacked, again."

Calm down though, the F-Secure site also points out that, "this incident has nothing to do with the Sony PSN hack."

Basically, the Sony Thailand site (sony.co.th) is hosting a subdomain at hdworld.sony.co.th that targets Italian credit card company CartaSi.

Then again, F-Secure site also reports on a "new phishing campaign, asking people to reset their Sony PSN password."

Source: F-Secure