Worst security breach ever playstation network hacked Not xbox live “identity theft”
Senator Wants Answers on PlayStation Network Breach.ys after Congress announced plans to tackle the iPhone tracking issue, a Connecticut senator is also asking for answers about Sony’s PlayStation Network security breach.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, wrote to Sony president Jack Tretton on Tuesday, expressing concern that the company did not immediately notify its customers about the breach and asking that Sony provide them with access to financial data security services.
Sony’s PlayStation network has been having issues since last Wednesday, but it was not until last night that Sony confirmed that hackers had obtained personal information from the network, which possibly included credit cards. Sony said it expects to “restore some services” within a week, but did not elaborate.
Blumenthal said he was “troubled” by Sony’s delayed reaction. “A breach of such a widely used service immediately raises concerns of data privacy, identity theft, and other misuse of sensitive personal and financial data, such as names, email addresses, and credit and debit card information,” he wrote.
Blumenthal suggested that Sony provide customers with access to free credit reports for two years. “Affected individuals should also be provided with sufficient insurance to protect them from the possible financial consequences of identity theft,” he said.
In a Tuesday blog post, Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications and social media at Sony, insisted that “there’s a difference in timing between when we identified there was an intrusion and when we learned of consumers’ data being compromised.”
Sony learned of the intrusion on April 19 and subsequently shut down its services. It then brought in outside experts to assess the damage, which took some time, he said.
“It was necessary to conduct several days of forensic analysis, and it took our experts until yesterday to understand the scope of the breach,” Seybold wrote. “We then shared that information with our consumers and announced it publicly this afternoon.”
For more, see Sony’s PlayStation Network Outage: What You.ys after Sony shut down its PlayStation Network, an online service for Sony console owners, due to an unexplained outage, hactivist group Anonymous has disclaimed credit for the outage.
In a Friday post entitled “For Once, It Wasn’t Us” Anonymous wrote:
“While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves AnonOps was not related to this incident and takes no responsibility for it. A more likely explanation is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous’ previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact the outage is actually an internal problem with the companies servers.”
On Thursday, Sony announced it had shut down the PlayStation Network for a “full day or two” to investigate an unknown outage, which it confirmed the day before. Reports also said that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe had posted its suspicions about a hacking attempt, but by press time, the European PlayStation blog had been apparently edited to mimic the U.S. version.
On Friday morning Sony posted another update hinting at the work of hackers, “An external intrusion on our system has affected our PlayStation Network and Qriocity services,” it wrote in a blog post.
In March Anonymous briefly took down the PlayStation Network to kickstart “Operation Sony,” a campaign meant to cripple Sony for its recent lawsuits against PS3 hackers.
But within days, Anonymous reversed the hack due to complaints from gamers that the takedown was doing more harm than good, and hacked into the Sony Careers page instead. Anonymous also organized an in-store boycott.
Meanwhile, earlier this month PS3 hacker George “Geohot” Hotz and Sony settled their suit, and Hotz agreed to a permanent injunction against posting information that Sony wanted removed. Sony sued Hotz in January for hacking the Sony PS3 and posting his circumvention technique on his Web site, as well as links for others to do the same.
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Online Identity Theft
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Guiding Responsible Online Behavioral Advertising
Over the years, privacy has been on top of consumer’s minds because of fears of identity theft and the corrupt use of private information. Recently, advertisers have been plagued with accusations of infringing on the privacy of online consumers. Since it is true that advertisers collect data from consumers shopping online, we have created the “Principles for Guiding Responsible Online Behavioral Advertising.”
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Transaction Verification Solution for Online Banking and E-Commerce
Introduction to Identity Theft prolifiration , scale and trend and need for transaction verification.
SilentBanker Trojan – online bank-stealing malware – description.
SentryCom VoiceProof Online solution for transaction verification descritption.
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Identity Theft video project
A project that me and a few fellow students did in web design about internet safety. The idea behind this was mainly because of my addiction to twitter, thus it’s used in the video for the networking/stealing of identity. So I must say, thank you twitter for not being blocked at my school! Now… how the does Justin Timberlake come into this? Well… It’s because a classmate mentioned him being the sexiest man alive then we just decided to have him in the film.
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