maybe this has something to do with it. Tonight's DM:
Sony announced that it had detected a large amount of unauthorised sign-in attempts on the PlayStation Network (PSN), the Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) and Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), affecting approximately 93,000 accounts.
It added that this represented less than one tenth of one per cent of its PSN, SEN and SOE consumer base - but it's still likely to have left the Japanese firm reeling.
A spokeswoman for Sony United Kingdom and Ireland said that it was still not certain if users in Britain had been targeted in the most recent attack but that the company had locked all affected accounts and would be sending emails to their users and requiring secure password resets.
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She said: There have been a small number of accounts accessed globally but there is no country-specific breakdown yet.
Our networks have not been hacked, but rather password and user ID combos have been accessed and passed on to third parties.
A spokesman for Sony Network Entertainment International assured users that the credit card numbers associated with the accounts were not at risk.
He said: Between October 7 and October 10, we confirmed that these were unauthorised attempts, and took steps to thwart this activity.
Only a small fraction of these 93,000 accounts showed additional activity prior to being locked.
We are continuing to investigate the extent of unauthorised activity on any of these accounts.
These attempts appear to include a large amount of data obtained from one or more compromised lists from other companies, sites or sources.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-network-accounts-affected.html#ixzz1abZ6FQLk
