Sony No Credit Card Theft for October's PlayStation Network Hack Victims
The company also breaks out the New PlayStation Network Numbers
Following earlier news that the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment have both been hacked again, the company's VP & Chief Information Security Officer, Sony Group, Philip Reitinger has issued a statement of warning and calm.
He states, "As a preventative measure, we are requiring secure password resets for those PSN/SEN accounts that had both a sign-in ID and password match through this attempt. If you are in the small group of PSN/SEN users who may have been affected, you will receive an email from us at the address associated with your account that will prompt you to reset your password."
SOE accounts that were matched, however, "have been temporarily turned off. If you are among the small group of affected SOE customers, you will receive an email from us at the address associated with your account that will advise you on next steps in order to validate your account credentials and have your account turned back on."
The company also broke out the numbers of those effected in some detail:
"Less than one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of our PSN, SEN and SOE audience may have been affected.
"There were approximately 93,000 accounts globally (PSN/SEN: approximately 60,000 accounts; SOE: approximately 33,000) where the attempts succeeded in verifying those accounts’ valid sign-in IDs and passwords, and we have temporarily locked these accounts. "
In terms of credit cards, "Please note, if you have a credit card associated with your account, your credit card number is not at risk. We will work with any users whom we confirm have had unauthorized purchases made to restore amounts in the PSN/SEN or SOE wallet."
Source: Sony
He states, "As a preventative measure, we are requiring secure password resets for those PSN/SEN accounts that had both a sign-in ID and password match through this attempt. If you are in the small group of PSN/SEN users who may have been affected, you will receive an email from us at the address associated with your account that will prompt you to reset your password."
SOE accounts that were matched, however, "have been temporarily turned off. If you are among the small group of affected SOE customers, you will receive an email from us at the address associated with your account that will advise you on next steps in order to validate your account credentials and have your account turned back on."
The company also broke out the numbers of those effected in some detail:
"Less than one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of our PSN, SEN and SOE audience may have been affected.
"There were approximately 93,000 accounts globally (PSN/SEN: approximately 60,000 accounts; SOE: approximately 33,000) where the attempts succeeded in verifying those accounts’ valid sign-in IDs and passwords, and we have temporarily locked these accounts. "
In terms of credit cards, "Please note, if you have a credit card associated with your account, your credit card number is not at risk. We will work with any users whom we confirm have had unauthorized purchases made to restore amounts in the PSN/SEN or SOE wallet."
Source: Sony
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config 12 Oct 2011 15:10
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Could this be the attackers from the first hack using some data gleaned from the account records gathered from that attack? If they'd managed to crack some of the hashed passwords, maybe they cracked enough to have another go with the same password. Although PSN forced a password change, you've got to wonder how many account owners reverted to the old or insecure passwords in the days after?