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over 24.6 millions accounts are comprised and the CEO of Sony has nothing to say and is staying silent..really? after this downfall i will be switching consoles.
LMAO.
Of course this could be a crazy coincidence, but many sites are reporting that Sony iced ~ 200 employees from ... get this -- their online (SOE) division! Whaaat? Really?
Come turnover time, March 31st, 2011, Sony issued 2-week notice layoffs and if you look at a calendar two weeks later is around the same time Sony shut down ... give or take a few days.
Out of 200 online now ex-employees, I'm sure someone would have the necessary know-how to pull this off. Very possible, but again it's circumstantial.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Update: Brutal... More Sony customer data out in the wild... From SOE.com:
- source: psx-scene
Come turnover time, March 31st, 2011, Sony issued 2-week notice layoffs and if you look at a calendar two weeks later is around the same time Sony shut down ... give or take a few days.
Out of 200 online now ex-employees, I'm sure someone would have the necessary know-how to pull this off. Very possible, but again it's circumstantial.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Sony Online Entertainment has closed three of its studios and laid off 205 workers as part of a massive restructuring.
All possible steps are being taken to ensure team members affected by the transition are treated with appropriate concern."
And from Wikipedia - Sony Online EntertainmentAll possible steps are being taken to ensure team members affected by the transition are treated with appropriate concern."
On March 31, 2011, SOE has confirmed that "it will eliminate 205 positions and close its Denver, Seattle and Tucson studios."
On April 27, 2011, Sony, the parent company of SOE, released statements regarding an intrusion, on or about April 18th, into the Playstation network and the potential theft of up to 77 Million subscribers personal data. Sony maintains that PSN and SOE are hosted and run on completely separate subsystems and that the PlayStation intrusion had no major affect on SOE's online services.
On May 2, 2011, SOE completely interrupted their online services. Over the previous month several intrusions of PSN have caused the developers to post messages of concern and apology, but also assurances the SOE servers and systems were not compromised. This most recent development has shut the service down entirely with the message: "We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately. We will provide an update later today (Monday)."
Oh yeah, SOE service is down now too. Thumbs up!On April 27, 2011, Sony, the parent company of SOE, released statements regarding an intrusion, on or about April 18th, into the Playstation network and the potential theft of up to 77 Million subscribers personal data. Sony maintains that PSN and SOE are hosted and run on completely separate subsystems and that the PlayStation intrusion had no major affect on SOE's online services.
On May 2, 2011, SOE completely interrupted their online services. Over the previous month several intrusions of PSN have caused the developers to post messages of concern and apology, but also assurances the SOE servers and systems were not compromised. This most recent development has shut the service down entirely with the message: "We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately. We will provide an update later today (Monday)."
Update: Brutal... More Sony customer data out in the wild... From SOE.com:
Customers outside the United States should be advised that we further discovered evidence that from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) and about 10,700 direct debit records listing bank account numbers of certain customers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Spain may have also been obtained. We will be notifying each of those customers promptly.
There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment.
Thanks Matt.There is no evidence that our main credit card database was compromised. It is in a completely separate and secured environment.
- source: psx-scene
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