Sony accounts lock down – more detail
60,000 accounts on the Sony PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network, as well as 33,000 accounts on the Sony Online Entertainment servers were briefly accessed by “intruders using very large sets of sign-in IDs and passwords” according to a statement by Sony.
The attacks on the network took place between Friday 7 October and Monday 10 October, after hackers succeeded in verifying sign-in IDs and passwords – though according to Sony credit card information was not at risk during the attack.
“In this case, given that the data tested against our network consisted of sign-in ID-password pairs, and that the overwhelming majority of the pairs resulted in failed matching attempts, it is likely the data came from another source and not from our Networks,” Sony Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger said on the PlayStation blog.
Read the full story over at: Cnet.
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