The PlayStation hacker obtained personal info about the users

Posted by Fry Lawrence On Monday, May 2nd 2011 in Technology

A Sony message to the PlayStation's users warned about an unknown persons who proceed to an illegal and unauthorized intrusion to the network. According to the e-mail information from Sony, this is the reason why the access of the PlayStation account is blocked. The apologies the users for this problem and told them that one they discovered this exterior intrusion, they turned off the services and hired an outside and authorized firm to handle the complete investigations about this electronic attack.

They are planning to rebuild the system in order to assure the safety and the confidentiality of the user's personal info. According to the expert's investigation, the intruder obtained the name, the address, PlayStation passwords and login in formations, everything about the users profiles, personal in formations about the birth place, city, address. Although the experts couldn't find any evidence about any credit card's attack, Sony official warn their users to be very careful in managing this situation.

They advise them to change the passwords and the user name once the problem is gone. More, it is very safe for the users, the official statement continues, not to offer any clues referring to the credit card, social security number or very personal in formations to anyone. The mail is continuing with some useful in formations about the responsible authorities in case of credit card theft. It has been almost a week since the hacker attack on Sony's platform PlayStation. This is the first official position of the electronic giant since the incident. Until this moment, they only declared that an external attack had been taken place and they try to restore in time the whole system. This late statement is a proof of the severe attack of the hackers and the hard way that the Sony Computer Entertainment's experts are facing this crisis.

The PlayStation Network has over 70 millions subscribers. Among the video games, that can be played online, the platforms offers the users the possibility to download movies and videos. The PlayStation fans are angry about Sony's way to handle this situations. They are writing on forums and blogs that is not possible at this level to have this predictable news after a week since the attack. More, in this time, their personal info could been used in any purpose without knowing and this is only Sony's fault. They are angry that this e-mail hadn't been sent at that time, immediately.