If you haven’t heard already about the PlayStation Network compromise, you should pay attention if you have a PS3 and use PSN. Your PSN online ID, name, address and birth date have all been compromised, and (potentially) your secret questions, and credit card numbers. Sony finally admitted that on April 20, 2011 they were victim of an attack on one of their servers. The database with information from it’s 77 Millions subscribers was compromised. Sony is now recommending that you “…be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well. To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports.”
For a full news report on the PSN data breach, click here.
