Sony has suffered another blow as reports indicate that even users that have changed their passwords since PSN has come back online are still at risk.
This past weekend, Sony finally reached its goal of bringing PSN back online. Along with a service restart, Sony also rolled out a mandatory update to all users, which required that they change their password before logging in. However, it seems things still aren’t secure, despite this forced password change, as users’ accounts may still be at risk.
A posting over on game blog Nyleveia claims that all accounts remain unsafe because of a hack that allows a third party to change your password using only your email address and date of birth. Nyleveia claims that its source demonstrated the exploit and they received a ‘password successfully changed email’ from Sony and could no longer use their own password to sign in.
Nyleveia contacted Sony, providing a detailed account of the exploit and, shortly after, Sony shut down web-based PSN login and password recovery. Right now, users attempting to sign in via PlayStation.com are seeing the following notice:
Considering email addresses and DOBs were among the data stolen during last month's attack, it's plausible that the people responsible for that breach could potentially take over your account. Sony has yet to comment on the validity of the exploit, but Nyleveia suggests making a brand new email address just for your PSN account. We'll update if Sony comments on the situation.
Read more about the exploit here.
It just goes on and on, my friends.
Yeah me neither. I am glad to be an "elitist" PC gamer. But I do have sympathy for those affected.
Same here, although I don't feel any sympathy whatsoever. That was ripped out of me when I was told by a bunch of PS3 owners that PCs werent meant for gaming, that my system was crap, and that there's no difference whatsoever between it and a PS3. Actually, the PS3 is apparently better at gaming than a gaming PC.
Nope. No sympathy to be found here. Ignorance is bliss, I guess, when you don't understand that someone's GPU alone has more power than your entire console, nor what the word "resolution" means, nor anything else that has anything to do with graphical quality whatsoever. I don't mind that people like their consoles - that's just fine with me. But when they go out of their way to bash on PC 'elitists', that's when they need to be put in pain.
/rant on why I hate most console gamers
This is the problem with corporations nowadays, CEOs write their own checks and answer to no one. If I was a shareholder I'd demand the resignation of anyone who hasn't been on vacation for the past month. Taco Bell managers have more common sense than the people who are running Sony. Considering how dependent they are on brand recognition, this kind of sloppy bandaging is going to do unimaginable damage to their profits.
Seems like the government there does it's job, protecting the people.
I game on both the PS3 AND PC. I got the PS3 for the exclusive titles and the Blue Ray player (at the time it price comparible to the blueray players I was looking at) but the computer is far superior for gaming. I'm one of the seemingly rare people that thinks there is room for both.
And YES, I HATE console ports, and if the PS ever losses the stranglehold they have on the games I play on it, I won't be getting a PS4 or whatever it will be called.
I would probably own a PS3 now if they hadn't done that.
Same here...for the most part. I have a PS3 as my way of "dumbing down" to play with the people I want to do online gaming with who see a PC as a barrier. Other side of it... PS3 exclusive games I wanted to enjoy.
On the other hand... triple-head gaming on a current NV/AMD gpu *and* chatting via Ventrilo is something I never happening via console.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-215-pach-attack/713901
It should be a security question like what is the name of the first street you lived on... you know... it is logical, so my idea is not going to be used...