Sony Breach Gets Worse: 24.6 Million Compromised Accounts At SOE 242
An anonymous reader writes with an update to yesterday morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment's game service was taken offline to investigate a potential data breach related to the PSN intrusion. SOE has now said that they too suffered a major theft of user data.
"... personal information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen, as well as certain information from an outdated database from 2007. The information from the outdated database that may have been stolen includes approximately 12,700 non-US credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes), and about 10,700 direct debit records of certain customers in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain."
How far back does it go? This far... 8 years (Score:5, Interesting)
I haven't played everquest since 2002 and I got a notice. Luckily for me all that credit card information is outdated and wrong. Event the mailing address is wrong. How someone was able to access this data is beyond me. I cannot, for any reason, think of any justification Sony could have to store something in a manner that a developer could access at this level.
Sony is going to have one hell of a class action lawsuit in it's hands.
Re:A lesson for companies (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Best Practices (Score:3, Interesting)
It's probably tax laws requiring them to hang on to all financial transaction details for a number of years.
Re:Just wondering (Score:5, Interesting)
I haven't done business with Sony Online Entertainment at all for over a decade, and I'm apparently effected. I subscribed to Everquest way back in the day, but dropped somewhere around 2001. I just yesterday got an email from them that my personal information had been lost. So, don't feel so superior...even if you started boycotting them over the rootkits, they kept your information from before then, and then lost it to hackers.
Re:Just wondering (Score:5, Interesting)
Great timing! (Score:4, Interesting)
Sony Blu-Ray Player (Score:4, Interesting)