PSN Back up in NA, Europe. Still down in Japan/Asian regions

[Great Rumbler]

They're still making a lot of revenue and provide work for loads of people. Investors would've rather liked the profits to grow as fast as the company did and that never happened.

Japan wouldn't allow Sony to go all bankrupt or be taken over by an outside company though. Sony would get a bail out much like US and EU banks but it won't go that far.

[T-Short]

Nintex, some snaggot on gaf

[Joe Molotov]

SDF is too big to fail.

[Shaka Khan]

snaggot

I like the ring of that.

Also, Nintex is an idiot.

[Himu]

Snaggot

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Estimated cost of PSN hacking-related losses: $171 million

At this point, with over $5 billion in losses, this is essentially pocket change.  What will be interesting is the long term impact of hardware and software sales.  I could see third party multiplatform PS3 titles taking a savage beating.

[chronovore]

Yeah, I saw that too and thought WTF?

Their overall losses are over US$3 BILLION and this fiasco is only costing them less than 0.171 billion -- relatively speaking, nothing.

[pilonv1]

That's not counting what damage it did to the brand though.

[AdmiralViscen]

Wheres my free shit

[Himu]

Well, there's kinda an emphasis on the shit part of that sentence, viscen-kun.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

its only costing Sony that much money.  How much change has every company that didn't count on having a month of missing PSN sales has missing doesn't figure into that.

Like, say for instance, Lexis Numerique's detective adventure game (exclusive too) that only had maybe two days of sales before hackers pulled the plug on the service.

[maxy]

Sony websites hacked, Greek users' information leaked: report


(Reuters) - Sony Corp websites in three countries have been hacked and personal information for about 8,500 people has been leaked from the consumer electronics maker's Greek website, Jiji news service reported on Tuesday.

Representatives from Sony were not immediately available for comment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-sony-greece-idUSTRE74N1S120110524

[pilonv1]

Is that new?

[maxy]

Is that new?

Reported today,but who knows I've lost count.

This now getting really personal,Sony=hackers public enemy number one.I wonder if some pre E3 attack is planned...burn

Apparently the data appeared online

In what seems to be a neverending nightmare it appears that the website of Sony BMG in Greece has been hacked and information dumped.

An anonymous poster has uploaded a user database to pastebin.com, including the usernames, real names and email addresses of users registered on SonyMusic.gr.

The data posted appears to be incomplete as it claims to include passwords, telephone numbers and other data that is either missing or bogus.


As I mentioned in the Sophos Security Chet Chat 59  podcast at the beginning of the month, it is nearly impossible to run a totally secure web presence, especially when you are the size of Sony. As long as it is popular within the hacker community to expose Sony's flaws, we are likely to continue seeing successful attacks against them.

It appears someone used an automated SQL injection tool to find this flaw. It's not something that requires a particularly skillful attacker, but simply the diligence to comb through Sony website after website until a security flaw is found.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/05/22/sony-bmg-greece-the-latest-hacked-sony-site/

It is now claimed that Sony's Thailand site was attacked yesterday and that there was a breach at owned Japanese ISP So-Net.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/44445/Sony-suffers-new-data-loss

[T-Short]

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/05/24/sony-music-japan-hacked-through-sql-injection-flaw/

[maxy]

Will Sony stop the bleeding? The attackers stated in their message "This isn't a 1337 h4x0r, we just want to embarrass Sony some more."

While there is an enormous target on Sony's back as a result of these very public attacks it is unclear why this is happening. Is Sony taking security seriously or are there simply so many flaws from the past that exist in their public facing sites that it will take them a long time to patch them all?

I hope this is the last time I have to report on a flaw at Sony. Sony has announced they are working with several professional organizations to get their security house in order and for their sake I hope this happens sooner rather than later.

Oh,what are we going to do today,life is so boring?

.
.
.

I know,let's poke Sony a little bit
.
Good idea,I will bring hookers and alcohol,wooohooo
 

[maxy]

Where is Methodis?

Getting hacked somewhere probably,hopefully he upgraded his virgin belt.

[ferrarimanf355]

The Store's not up atm. 

[Mupepe]

i want to get my free games

[Herr Mafflard]

The Store's not up atm. 

wtf, I signed in this morning to change my password, I get the email to reset it, follow the link and "server down for maintenance"

this is the second time in a row now

[Sho Nuff]

I think it would be awesome if Sony's new mascot was a Marcus-style hacker who would plead to "1NCR3AS3 T3H P3AC3, END HAX0RING"

[Bebpo]

lol

Will wait for PS4 and hope it's BC.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Sony can't keep even one fucking promise.

You can't spell Incompetent without Sony.

There's still a week left in the month you idiot.


Can't spell distinguished mentally-challenged without Borys.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

wow I can't believe how dumb xbots are 

[maxy]

This fits here

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[maxy]

In order to get brainwashed you need to have a brain.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Almost 1 month of NO online play, fucking over devs with 0 revenue from PSN Store for MORE than one month, terribad private information (names, addresses, credit card information etc.) leak for 77M people, high chance of identity crimes commited with this stolen info and sfags reply to this news is:

- can't wait!
- my credit card is ready!

Truly, never in the history of the world has a greatest brainwashing been performed.

credit card information was never comprimised, try mroe xbot.

[Himu]

borys only has a ps3. I'm sorry but I'm going to ban you methodis.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

well atleast I went like 2 years this time

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Hackers are going to be fucking with Sony for a long time.  They and Sfags better get used to it, despite Sony's new bulletproof unhackable security.

[maxy]

Another day,another hack

Personal data of 2,000 consumers stolen from Sony Ericsson website

Having just confessed to a fresh data theft from the Sony Greece BMG website, the PlayStation platform has now revealed a further breach of its online security.

The BBC reports that the details of 2,000 consumers registered on the Canadian Sony Ericsson portal have been stolen. Email addresses, passwords and phone numbers have been compromised.

No credit card information has been affected.

No online for Dirt 3 on PS3

Online multiplayer locked until PlayStation Store is back online; PSN needed to redeem VIP pass

PS3 owners who rushed out to buy Codemasters' new racer Dirt 3 yesterday have found that they are unable to access the online modes because of the ongoing PSN outage.

Users need to redeem the in-box VIP Pass to unlock the title's online features such as competitive multiplayer and YouTube video uploading. This is impossible while the PlayStation Store remains offline.

Second hand buyers will need to pay either 800 Microsoft Points on XBL or Ł6.29 on PSN to access the content.

ps3 is now serious contender for the first place in "most useless console ever competition"-but hey at least PSP ports will be playable soon

[pilonv1]

WB are letting users play Mortal Kombat for free at the moment. Once the store is up they need to redeem their online pass. How generous.

[Sho Nuff]

Lol at myself for being unable to redeem my DLC codes for LA Noire. Superior version indeed

[T-Short]

Going up in asia (except SK and HK) tomorrow?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/228827/sonys_playstation_network_to_reopen_in_asia_on_saturday.html

Sony's PlayStation Network online gaming service will reopen for millions of gamers across Asia on Saturday, more than five weeks after it was taken offline following a cyber attack.

Sony pulled the plug on the PlayStation Network and the companion Qriocity audio and video streaming service on April 20, a day after detecting what it later called a "very sophisticated" intrusion.

When service resumes on Saturday in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, there will only be two more countries where service is still offline: South Korea and Hong Kong. Sony is still in discussions with authorities in those markets and can't name a date for the resumption of services in the two countries.

"It's going to take a little while longer," said Satoshi Fukuoka, a spokesman for Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo.

[chronovore]

What is it?

And if I've got two accounts, which one will be available, I wonder?

[Sho Nuff]

OMG @ that Japan list 

Japanese consumers get urinated on yet again.

[Mr. Gundam]

I wonder that, too.  Anyway:

PS3 (any 2)
Echochrome
Wipeout
Locoroco Cocoreccho
The Last Guy
Hustle King

PSP (any 2)
LittleBigPlanet
Yuusha or2 (Holy Invasion 2)
Patapon 2
Minna no Sukkiri
Locoroco Midnight Carnival

The games may be shit, but I don't have them a lot of them (Last Guy, Hustle Kings), so I can try them out for free.

[Shaka Khan]

Holy Invasion 2 and Patapon 2 for the PSP is a sweet deal.

[ManaByte]

Looks like the PS Store won't be up on the 31st.

Atari apparently confirmed that as they were going to release their shitty D&D PSN game on the 31st and they say the network won't be ready on that day.

[Bebpo]

I have everything except Hustle Kings

I don't want hustle kings 

[ManaByte]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-27/sony-s-stringer-blindsided-by-hackers-who-probed-flaws-with-vow-to-attack.html

Sony Corp. (6758), besieged by hackers since April, considered its PlayStation Network an unlikely target even after threats by the online collective Anonymous and three separate security incidents in 2008.

The hacker group declared in April that it would wage a cyber war against Sony for trying to stop people from tinkering with the PlayStation 3. Three years earlier, the company faced three breaches in Europe, including one in which Sony said some PlayStation Network user data might have been stolen.

The repeated incidents should have warned Sony its online network was vulnerable, said Eugene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The failure to enact safeguards such as appointing a single chief of security may show Sony misunderstands the risks inherent in Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer’s networked strategy, he said.

“The evidence we’ve seen so far speaks to a lack of a good data management plan and a good security plan,” said Spafford, who specializes in information security, computer crime investigation and information ethics.

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said today it told Sony to carry out preventive measures against data breaches, instructed the company to ease customer concerns over misuse of credit cards and share more information among affiliates.

Spreading Attacks

Sony has struggled to keep up with the barrage that started in mid-April. The Qriocity and PlayStation Network services were knocked out for almost a month, compromising data in more than 100 million accounts.

In the past week, the Tokyo-based company has been hit with smaller intrusions -- a breach at online-service unit So-net Entertainment Corp. (3789) led to the misuse of user names and passwords of 128 customers. This week, Sony shut web pages that were targeted in Greece, Canada, Thailand and Indonesia.

The PlayStation Network will resume in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand tomorrow, while services in South Korea and Hong Kong will remain suspended until further notice, Sony said today.

‘New Experience’

“Obviously our network security didn’t stop the attack and we’re trying to understand why, and we’ve made big strides in bolstering our security,” Stringer said in a May 17 interview, before the most recent incidents.

Sony believed it had “good, robust security.” Stringer said. He rejected suggestions that Sony is paying for a lack of vigilance and said he was unaware of the 2008 intrusion on the PlayStation Network.

Since most users of PSN don’t pay, and most threats focus on stealing credit card information, the theft of passwords and other personal data from those services appeared less likely, Stringer said.

“We have a network that gave people services free,” Stringer said. “It didn’t seem like the likeliest place for an attack.”

When the April incursion first started, he didn’t know how serious it was, Stringer said. “I really don’t think I could apologize for not knowing,” he said. “It’s a whole new experience for everybody at this scale.”

Anonymous Vow

There were warning signs. Sony was singled out for retaliation by Anonymous, the hacker group that brought down the websites of MasterCard Inc. (MA) in December, after the company sued 21-year-old George “GeoHot” Hotz for posting information on how to modify the PlayStation game console. The case was settled on March 31.

Anonymous announced its revenge campaign, “Operation Payback,” on the website anonnews.org. In an early May statement, the group denied involvement in the PlayStation and Qriocity breaches, while saying some members of the loosely organized collective may have been behind it.

Sony, Japan’s largest consumer-electronics exporter, must connect its televisions, Blu-ray players, game consoles and digital cameras via the Internet to music, movies and video games, Stringer has said. Unconnected devices rapidly become commodities as rivals compete for customers, he has said.

‘Failure of Trust’

Sony’s investigation into the cause and search for suspects in the mid-April attack is ongoing, the company said. Sony on May 23 said it may spend more than $170 million related to the hack. The company also said it discovered personal data may have been stolen from 8,500 user accounts in a music entertainment site in Greece.

The company erred in “thinking of these incidents in terms of a breach of systems” and communicating with its customers based on the severity of the failure, said Kevin Kosh, a partner at Waltham, Massachusetts-based Chen PR, which represents technology companies.

“When you’re a consumer-facing organization, that’s not the way you should think,” Kosh said. “It’s first and foremost a business failure and a failure of trust.”
In March 2008, Sony informed users in Europe that an unauthorized person may have gained access to personal data on PSN through personal computers. There is no evidence that personal information or credit-card data was taken, and the security flaw, which is unrelated to the recent attack, was fixed, the company said in response to questions for this story.

2008 Probes

London Metropolitan Police questioned a teenager about a separate, September 2008 hacking attack into Sony’s developer network, according to three people familiar with the incident.

The network has no identifying information about customers and isn’t attached to the PlayStation Network, Sony said in the statement provided by Dan Race, a spokesman.

In December 2008, a user revealed a flaw in Sony’s PlayStation Home virtual-world game for the PS3 that let him manipulate pictures and videos on his own device. That person never had access to Sony’s servers, the company said.

“The one incident that related to PlayStation Network, once we identified what it was, they went in and fixed it,” Race said. The April attacks were much more sophisticated than 2008 and appear to be unrelated, Sony said.

In the weeks leading up to the April 16 breach, Sony missed key opportunities to plug holes in its system, said Bret McDanel, a security expert who monitored publicly available server logs.

Navy Server

The company’s network security should have seen a sustained probing of its systems from a Navy medical computer in Southern California, which may have been used as a proxy server by potential attackers, McDanel said.

The company hasn’t turned up evidence of such a probe of its servers, said a person with knowledge of Sony’s efforts to trace the cause of the security break.
“The truth is that people test for vulnerabilities on network systems on a daily basis, and Sony is constantly monitoring for unauthorized activity, conducting our own vulnerability tests and making constant enhancements,” Race said.

He declined to say whether Sony found evidence of a probe from the Department of Defense server. Justin Cole, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy, didn’t return a call requesting comment.

The attack in April was launched through a server rented from Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s cloud-computing service, a person with knowledge of the matter said this month. The account was shut and Amazon’s servers weren’t compromised, the person said.

Security Chief

Companies should consider carefully what data belongs on open servers, put one person in charge of administrative rights and keep track of how and when the network is accessed, said Yuichi Uzawa, a Tokyo-based senior consultant in charge of investigative response at Verizon Business. Nevertheless, determined hackers can often find ways to break in, he said.

“In the end, it’s extremely difficult to defend a network from an organized, targeted attack,” Uzawa said. “Early discovery of signs of intrusion through monitoring of key assets is the best defense.”

Sony said it takes network security and the protection of personal information seriously. There are multiple layers of protection and the company constantly monitors for unauthorized activity, including testing for vulnerabilities, it said.

Even so, Sony’s chief information officer oversaw network security as part of his duties until after the April attacks. A chief information-security officer was then appointed, reporting to the CIO, to provide an additional layer of security, the company said.

Failing to take such a step earlier was a critical shortcoming, according to Chen PR’s Kosh.

“Adding a CISO after the fact is like hiring a bodyguard after you’ve been fatally wounded,” Kosh said. “It creates an impression that there’s a lack of accountability.”

[Great Rumbler]

“We have a network that gave people services free,” Stringer said. “It didn’t seem like the likeliest place for an attack.”

[Mr. Gundam]

I have everything except Hustle Kings

I don't want hustle kings 

bububu trophies!

Yeah, I'll probably add it to my DL list but never actually download it to the hard drive.

[iconoclast]

The demo of The Last Guy was awesome. I'm glad I have a JP account so I can get it for free. I guess I'll get Cocoreccho too.

[Bebpo]

good luck with that

If the stores are up before E3 I will be surprised.  I don't care what their PR says.

[maxy]

Sony knows how - but not who - hacked into its PlayStation Network last month in possibly the biggest Internet security breach in history.

And despite beefing up its system to prevent another cyberattack like the one that exposed the personal information of 100 million users, Sony can't guarantee that it won't happen again.

In a letter sent this week to members of Congress, the Japanese tech giant said it boosted security measures through added firewalls, new policy changes and increased monitoring of its PlayStation and Qriocity systems.

Yet it still may not be enough, said the letter signed by Kazuo Hirai, head of Sony Computer Entertainment, the company's games unit.

"No security system is absolutely foolproof, and changing conditions in the future can make a currently secure environment less secure," wrote Hirai, who ended up praising the "skill" of the mystery hackers.

"These gaps in what we know are not for lack of trying by experts, but rather an unfortunate testament to the skill of those who perpetrated the attacks. Some aspects of the intrusion may never be known."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2011/05/28/2011-05-28_sony_playstation_network_breach.html#ixzz1NfHmImba

bu bu bu PSN will be totally secure now

sfags totally annihilated by Sony

[maxy]

down again apparently

don't panic,probably some temporary glitch in the matrix

[MyNameIsMethodis]

still only a week more than xbox live at its worst + rrod is sitll way worse 

[demi]

Yes, of course it is...

[MyNameIsMethodis]

No ones information was ever stolen. Stop making FUD.

[pilonv1]

It wasn't stolen it was misplaced

[maxy]

Pachter XBL account got hacked apparently,serves him right for anti-hacker trash talk

Just got an email-I apparently successfully switched my XBL account to Russia. Either great MW3 advertising, or someone is messing with me

No kidding, the email is from billing@microsoft.com and says that there are 4 months left, XBL account transferred to Russia

It appears that I was targeted for account theft on XBL, and my friends at Microsoft are going to hang the perpetrators from their thumbs

Let’s hope they add a few zeroes to my pathetic gamerscore while they are in control of my XBL account

methodis beware

[maxy]

The Internet’s vigilant brigade has come to WikiLeaks’ defense yet again.

LulzSec, a hacker group, has claimed credit for cracking PBS’s website and leaking its login credentials after an episode of its Frontline show–titled “WikiSecrets”–that put a critical spotlight on WikiLeaks and the suspected source of its troves of classified documents, Bradley Manning.

“We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further… perusing,” read a statement that LulzSec posted to Twitter. “Anyway, say hello to the insides of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they’re sailing next time.”

LulzSec, which has previously taken responsibility  for hacking Sony BMG’s Japanese website, has promised more attacks against Sony soon. “Phase 1 will begin within the next day,” the LulzSec twitter feed read just before announcing the PBS hack, following up on its warning from Friday: “We’re working on another Sony operation…it’s the beginning of the end for Sony.”

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/05/30/pbs-hacked-after-critical-wikileaks-show/

“We’re working on another Sony operation…it’s the beginning of the end for Sony.”

bye bye Sony
gaf will be so hacked left and right one day,have to remove everything from there
 




and in another news,remember that 360 MW2 phishing alert

An Irish schoolboy behind a Modern Warfare 2 phishing alert on Xbox 360 has reportedly been taken under Microsoft's wing.

According to the Herald, the 14-year-old Dublin lad was responsible for millions of 360 users being alerted to potential phishing attempts via title specific messaging following a Modern Warfare 2 hack.

During a keynote speech at Bank of Ireland Business Week, Microsoft Ireland GM Paul Rellis is reported to have said that the company's now working with the teenager to 'develop his talent and help him use his skills for legitimate purposes'.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/303217/news/ms-working-with-teenage-xbox-hacker-to-develop-his-talent/
 

[maxy]

Sony's promised that the PlayStation Store will be back online by the end of the week in Europe, America and parts of Asia.

The good news doesn't stretch to all nations, however. The platform holder released a statement today saying it'll "fully restore all PlayStation Network services in the Americas, Europe/PAL territories and Asia, excluding Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea by the end of this week."

That includes Sony's Music Unlimited service powered by Qriocity.

Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea are still somewhat in the dark. Each country will get details as and when they become available.

Services to be brought back online with what we hope is the final flick of the switch include:

    * Full functionality on PlayStationStore
    * In-game commerce
    * Ability to redeem vouchers and codes
    * Full functionality on Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity for PS3, PSP, VAIO and other PCs
    * Full functionality on Media Go

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/303687/playstation-store-back-online-this-week-promises-sony/

Defend that,Sceneman

And in another news

he group that claimed responsibility for last week's PBS website hack has claimed it is hacking Sony right now – and stealing "internal" information.

"Hey @Sony, you know we're making off with a bunch of your internal stuff right now and you haven't even noticed? Slow and steady, guys" reads a tweet published by the hackers this morning.

LulzSec, as the group is known, threatened Sony with what it describes as an "operation".

"This is the beginning of the end for Sony," it said on Twitter.

Then, "(Sony + Ownage) Phase 1 will begin within the next day. We may have a pre-game show for you folks though. Stay tuned."

LulzSec has already hacked the PBS website, posting a report that deceased rapper Tupac Shakur is "alive and well" in New Zealand, along with Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious BIG.

It is also reportedly responsible for the hacks on Sony BMG's Japanese website.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-31-lulzsec-were-hacking-sony-right-now

 

[Purple Filth]

The Store is back

[naff]

Awesome. Fury will be mine

[Beezy]

The Store is back

In the morning I'll turn on my PS3 for the first time since this whole thing started.

[Himu]

Can I dl Infamous and shit now?

[Purple Filth]

Can I dl Infamous and shit now?

No free stuff is up as yet (and i can see why since the store is getting hammered  )

a Infamous 2 demo is up though.

[Beezy]

Can I dl Infamous and shit now?

No free stuff is up as yet (and i can see why since the store is getting hammered  )

Guess I'll wait a bit longer...