{"id":35874,"date":"2011-10-12T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35874"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:02:20","slug":"sony-accounts-lock-down-more-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/35874-sony-accounts-lock-down-more-detail.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony accounts lock down &#8211; more detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60,000 accounts on the Sony PlayStation Network and <a title=\"Sony\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359638-Sony-Ericsson\">Sony<\/a> Entertainment Network, as well as 33,000 accounts on the Sony Online Entertainment servers were briefly accessed by \u201cintruders using very large sets of sign-in IDs and passwords\u201d according to a statement by Sony.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; though according to Sony credit card information was not at risk during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 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,&#8221; Sony Chief Information Security Officer <a title=\"Philip Reitinger\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372230-Philip-Reitinger\">Philip Reitinger<\/a> said on the <a title=\"PlayStation Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.eu.playstation.com\/2011\/10\/12\/an-important-message-from-sonys-chief-information-security-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-20118976-83\/sony-locks-down-online-accounts-after-security-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony have locked down 93,000 online user accounts following unauthorised access attempts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":34528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5610,193,5614,5616,5612],"class_list":["post-35874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-philip-reitinger","tag-sony","tag-sony-entertainment-network","tag-sony-online-entertainment","tag-sony-playstation-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35876,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35874\/revisions\/35876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}