Easy for privacy to be lost in the clouds
PlayStation users don't have to be told it's privacy awareness week. As they're waiting for their lives to restart - sorry, their online gaming to be restored - they may be feverishly checking their credit card accounts in case any mysterious transactions appear.
According to a blog posting by Sony communications director Patrick Seybold, the hackers got away with not only the profile data on PlayStation Network and Qriocity systems, and "we cannot rule out the possibility" that credit card data was taken.
The breach is not only a great opportunity for the original hackers but for the phishers, who will be even now rejigging their templates to hook in gullible gamers. Seybold warned that Sony will not contact its users in any way, including by email, asking for credit card numbers or other personally identifiable information, and that when service is restored, people should log on and change their user name and passwords.
