SOE takes services offline due to serious issue

@starbuck1771
It already was a major issue, not 'becoming'.

It's why they are taking the servers down.

@EgoPoisoning

SOE has been hacked? Where did you find this out?

@EgoPoisoning
Wells Fargo! You need to drop them for a decent bank asap! Those people are a horrible joke, their merger with Wachovia has been a mess that never should have been allowed. They were already too-big before the merger.

@Saker

I agree with everything you say. Even worse, my fiancee's father worked for them for something like 20 years; when he passed away last January, Fargo froze all of the family's accounts and no one would help them.

Unfortunately, they're into me for a good chunk o' loans, so I won't be free of the beast for the foreseeable future.

@(Unverified) You might as well ask what you did to the guy mugging you for your wallet. They're doing it for the money they can get reselling and abusing the information.

@(Unverified)

The fact is that it is not easy to "teach" yourself to be a hacker (I only know a few institutions that even teach it for security purposes, and make you sign a contract on it).

So people who are very good at it, has very questionable standards. I understand that a lot of hackers don't randomly hack things, but it is definitely in their arsenals if they wish to use it.

Besides, there are prolly other very important info in the system, like source codes. Not to say that they may gain access to SOE internal network.

@(Unverified)

With that said, I almost think it is unlikely for the hackers to "hack" your credit info and stuff, since there are bigger fishes in their action. Prolly sell your personal info to other companies tho. It is unlikely for a hacker who hack into SOE or Sony's other network to even paid attention to your account.

Well, I will still be careful >.>

@Tyrang
I'm afraid you're wrong. This hack wasn't for the thrill of it. It was targeted to get customer info. SoE has a huge database of name and credit information. That is a goldmine if it can be stolen, which was exactly what happened here.

You think they're going to take your credit card info (along with your name, the address on the account, etc.) and then not use it? Get real.

Sure, the person who stole it may not personally use it but will instead sell it to others who do so. But if your info was stolen, it's GOING to get used.

No one is going to touch this data, it is far too hot. This is the biggest theft of personal information ever, no one with a brain is going to go anywhere near it because the feds will be all over it the second it pops up on the grid.

This is just some punks with issues trying to get at Sony and hurting us in the process.

@bobfish

I hope to all the gods in EQ2 that your right.

...and to think i was having so much fun last night in my new land speeder in SWG. *sigh*

@bobfish I dunno Bob..I would say it probably more likely a bunch of middle aged SOE haters than it is young punks...I mean those guys are completely off their rockers.

@aurickle

I already said that they prolly sell your info. They just won't directly hack your account, or identity-theft you.

@bobfish naaah... you always find a buyer for that stuff. think big. like china or mafia.

@(Unverified) I thought anonymous came forward and took responsibility. Claiming that Sony went after their fellow hackers who jailbroke a PS3.

http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/opsony.html

If anonymous has any scruples they wouldn't leak customer information because the attack was at Sony, not it's customers.

@Interitus They didn't do this...
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/we-didnt-do-it-sony-incompetent.html

@pid They aren't that stupid. You can google for more than they got from PSN. Without credit cards it isn't worth too much, and no organised criminal group is going to want the heat associated with it.

@Stellar25

Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Although the problem with anonymous is the right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing. By their own admission it could be anonymous members working on their own.