Yay, Sony

[SA]

Yay.

According to the article, hackers may have had user information for over a week. We were not informed.

I love my Ps3. I was gonna download Dragon Age Awakening and play the shit out of it, then download God of War Collection and play the shit out of that too. Instead, right now, I'm going to walk the two miles to my local branch and cancel my fucking credit card.

Siiiiiighhhhhh

[limetom]

You can't cancel your card by phone/interwebs?

[SA]

Not on the internet. Also, very isolated and don't have a mobile. It's on-foot for me.

[Ninja D!]

If you're isolated and don't have a mobile phone (or, apparently a car or bike), that's all the more reason to have a land line. While I don't even follow this advice, it is better to use credit cards for these things than debit cards. That way you have some fraud protection.

[Magnus Pym]

Person to person is how business is done, IMO. Gogo CFPe (you)! Walking time (2 miles is hella short, btw... gogo!)

[SA]

Person to person is how business is done, IMO.

And how! Teach me to be a dumbass with my personal information... (not that anything's necessarily even been stolen, but I ought to have been more sensible on general principle). I suppose there are worse ways to learn that lesson.

It's a shame about the PSN situation all around, though. It's got a lot of people super freaked out and (like myself) kind of paranoid.

[LD]

Good luck with the cancellation. Hopefully that ensures that you will be safe.

[SA]

Oh, in retrospect, what with the 75+ million people affected, I'm not feeling too concerned given where I fall in that statistic.

Really, the only truly bothersome thing is that it took so long to be informed. That seems more than a little irresponsible to me.

[SDragon]

Fortunately, Sony doesn't have any payment info for me. I haven't bought anything from PSN. Before this happened, I was considering going through Gamestop to pay for any PSN downloads, simply because that would give me rewards on my Gamestop rewards card. Now that this has happened, I want to do it to keep my info away from Sony.

This whole issue has me quite a bit pissed, to be honest.

[LD]

>>Really, the only truly bothersome thing is that it took so long to be informed. That seems more than a little irresponsible to me.

Oh, it certainly is. The question is if Sony falls under regulations that would have required release of that compromised data ASAP. Without perusing the law in question, I would figure that they do... and if they don't, then I forsee new laws crafted by legislatures that deal with the disclosure of the compromise of credit card data and the retention of said data. Now may be a good time to invest in data storage retention specialists... I wonder if any of these security protective companies have undergone IPOs. Hmm. The only drawback to investing would be the obvious one; hackers would naturally be attracted to cracking the most arrogant security company--and they'd eventually succeed... and there goes the stock.

[Nomadic]

Will be interesting to see how this goes. Any lesser company would be hosed by something like this. Sony may still well be hosed but we'll see whether user anger or their solid fanbase wins in the end.

[Ninja D!]

People will forget about it soon enough. Not long ago, I was informed by a different company on behalf of several others of something similar happening...probably unrelated, right? Right?!?

[CoyoteCamouflage]

I seem to recall something like this happening a while ago-- I forget whom it was. But that just goes to show that they did a pretty fair job of covering up the problem. Mmm. Wait. I think it might have been a BP employee lost a laptop that had enough information to compromise the identities of a few thousand people. Not quite the same, in the end, but still close, I think.

Sony also has a pretty rabid fanbase to depend on for times like this. Incidents like this may lose them more casual gamers or people with no preference to Sony because of their name, but I doubt they will truly suffer in the long-term thanks to that group of rabid maniacs.

Just look at the PS3 release debacle. If that didn't make people jump ship, then not much else will.

[SA]

They've got me hooked with Uncharted, Dark Souls, Last Guardian and the Ico/SotC HD Edition. Every other game I'd want is on PS3 but not exclusive. I ain't ditching Sony, even if I am bitching about them like a whiny child.

[sparkletwist]

Sony's quality has gone down the toilet for a while now, and not just in gaming. Their vaio line is a complete and utter joke, too. I haven't bought a Sony product in a long time...

... and after this, have no intention of doing so any time soon.