PlayStation Network Hack Analysis

Great, well reasoned article. I feel Sony ought to have issued a statement sooner to the effect that there was the potential that usernames and passwords were compromised, and encouraged users to change passwords on other systems that share the PSN password.

Totally agree with you Config. The "potential" warning from Sony regarding passwords would have been helpful, timely and almost certanly not seen as over-reacting.
However, Sony are going to have to do somthing very drastic to restore user's faith... More than a free "minis" game at least.

Same here good job config. In my opinion, Sony did do it too late and put 77 million credit cards in danger. Apparently, one employee from Sony leaked the network codes and thats how it all happened. All of my friends who have PS3 say that it will come back online even though it doesn't. But anyway, it was a good article. Job well done.

I also agree with config, but what I fail to understand it how to take my Credit card details off the PSN, I know everyone is advising us to do so, however we are not actually able to because we cannot sign onto PSN due to the "Maintenance" occurring. This is frustrating because we know what is happening/happened but we are powerless to do anything about it.

so when will everything be back to normal ?

WHY ME ?
WHY NOT XBOX ???

hahahaha

Great article, makes complete sense and has slightly put my mind at rest. I say slightly because I wasn't buying into all the crap that everyone else was coming out with in the first place, though i'm not convinced about SONY telling us sooner would have been possible. I for one don't know when they found out the extent of the hack into their system, and unfortunatly you haven't convinced me that they knew that peoples information was stolen before they told us.
But as I said before this is a great article, thanks for the info :)