First the PSN network goes down for almost a month and now that it is back up the website to reset your password is easily exploited. Reports state that with your date of birth and email the hackers can reset your password to whatever they want and take over your account. And how do they get your dob and email? From the data stolen from the PSN breach last month! Clearly Sony hasn’t learned anything and doesn’t deserve your...

So.  Sony has relased that the table that held personal information was not encrypted (and the passwords were in clear text then??) but the table or database that held the credit card information was encrypted.  So perhaps your credit cards are safe. There has been some complaints of unauthorized credit card usage but it may or may not be linked to the data breach. One other interesting tidbit is that Sony made a point of...

It seems as though Sony is now copping to the fact that the hackers behind the ‘external intrusion’ of the PSN network used to play PS3 and PSP games online have stolen personal information such as PSN users’ “name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID.”  It is currently not know if Billing address, password...

“…At this stage of the game when I really look at PSN and the entire offering I think we’re in great shape,” claims Sony’s Eric Lempel. “I don’t think there’s a lot of â??catch upâ? [with XBL] anymore. In some cases, I think we’ve got more, and we’ve got some other things they don’t have.” Put the pipe down, Eric. Let me help you with your list of future...