CodeRedR51
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Current PSN outage: Don't abuse or we lose this thread.
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How would Sony know who you work for or your social number? Could this be a wind-up or a scammer trying to get more details from you?
CodeRedR51
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Where did they say the were sending it, your work? Did they have your current address?
Is it possible your bank or the company you work for could have sent you some post containing this info to your old address by mistake because if they did some 🤬 could have pretended to be you to get the loan.
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PSN Servers down here in England now still.
CodeRedR51
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If you are being sued for defaulting on a loan shouldn't that show up on a credit report? It sounds like a scam to me. Did the person say your last four to you, have you confirm it or anything like that? Who did the person calling say they were representing? It sounds very weird.
CodeRedR51
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They did have me confirm the last four of my SSN, but I didn't give them the whole thing. I asked him who the company was but didn't catch it. Phone call was really quiet, and since I'm at work it was hard to hear. There's no defaulted loans on my credit, I checked this morning. Although I'm not sure how payday loans work in that regard. Moot point anyway because as I said, you can't get them in Arizona.
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I'm sure other people can answer this but I always thought when you were sued for something like this you were served papers, not contracted through the phone. If they call again I would ask them for their contact info. They probably won't want to give it to you if they are scammers. I hope it works our for you and isn't a big mess.
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http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/05/02/sony_now_says_10m_credit_cards_accounts_compromised
Typical Sony here, clam up and deny everything until you are forced to admit it. The last time we reported on this, the company went from claiming "no-proof" that credit card info was stolen, to saying "the data was encrypted," to today....10 million credit card details may have been compromised.
That's not the personal details on their PSN account - all 77 million of those were up for grabs - that's ten million customer's credit card details. We've known for some time that credit card details have been at risk as part of the attack on the network, but this is the first time Sony has been able to put a figure on the number of card holders potentially affected.
Typical Sony here, clam up and deny everything until you are forced to admit it. The last time we reported on this, the company went from claiming "no-proof" that credit card info was stolen, to saying "the data was encrypted," to today....10 million credit card details may have been compromised.
That's not the personal details on their PSN account - all 77 million of those were up for grabs - that's ten million customer's credit card details. We've known for some time that credit card details have been at risk as part of the attack on the network, but this is the first time Sony has been able to put a figure on the number of card holders potentially affected.
CodeRedR51
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I don't think they're keeping quiet on much of anything. I'm sure they're learning the details of the intrusion slowly and finally getting them out to us.
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This links to an article from Kotaku about the press conference from Sunday. Didn't Sony say no evidence of credit cards being stolen in the conference?Toronto122
Today they said 12,700 credit cards stolen from SOE.
http://i.joystiq.com/2011/05/02/sony-hit-with-second-attack-loses-12-700-credit-card-nu/
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Well, all we can do is keep checking our bank accounts online. This whole situation has been one big disaster for Sony, and for us as well - not knowing if our psn accounts have been hacked or not. I fear that the psn will be back online like say tomorrow morning. I cannot get home until 3:30 pm to check and change my passwords. 
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That was disclosed in the press conference, not sure if they gave that info in their speech's or if it was an answer to a question.
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I could give a 🤬 about what day of the week is officially the first of the week. Its a relative situation anyway (religion, culture, etc) so arguing it for 6 pages is as effective as p:censored:ing in the wind.
So for the PSN Plus - we'll be getting a month's access? So we pretty much get most of the downloads for a discount?
Are there any movies on the PSN Plus package? Would love to grab some movies on the cheap...
Glad to hear this, looking forward to everything going back online.
So for the PSN Plus - we'll be getting a month's access? So we pretty much get most of the downloads for a discount?
Are there any movies on the PSN Plus package? Would love to grab some movies on the cheap...
Glad to hear this, looking forward to everything going back online.
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It seems strange that Sony took a week to tell everyone on PSN that their personal information had been taken. But they were able to shut down the SOE servers, check them for hacking, and inform all users of that service that their information had been taken all in less than 24 hours.Strange.
http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/
I hope such attacks on Sony do not persist or we may find our beloved PSN back down in a short time after it's brought back to life.
http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/
I hope such attacks on Sony do not persist or we may find our beloved PSN back down in a short time after it's brought back to life.
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I noticed a remark by Patrick Seybold in the comments section on the US PlayStation Blog in reference to password resets and our security questions and answers.
"Those security questions will not be used. As an added layer of security, the password can only be reset on the hardware in which it was created, or through a validated email confirmation. If necessary, Customer Service representatives have alternative methods of validating accounts, but the primary means will be through the console on which the account was created."
"Those security questions will not be used. As an added layer of security, the password can only be reset on the hardware in which it was created, or through a validated email confirmation. If necessary, Customer Service representatives have alternative methods of validating accounts, but the primary means will be through the console on which the account was created."
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I'd think the network will be much harder to hack now, so I wouldn't think intrusions will be a problem again, at least not for a while.
It appears Sony have taken their time to get to the bottom of the problems with PSN, if they did a quick fix, and then PSN went down again, it would be to damaging to their business. People would lose confidence.
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I keep checking my credit card, just to be safe.
This is the reason I have a credit card and not a debit card. if my credit card get's stolen they can only take as much as my limit allows, but if a debit card got stolen they have access to all your money.
This is the reason I have a credit card and not a debit card. if my credit card get's stolen they can only take as much as my limit allows, but if a debit card got stolen they have access to all your money.
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Anyone checked PSN? It's officially Tuesday. I'm guessing no.
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As of this minute, NA PSN is down.
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