Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction where Harvey Keitel’s character — the nicely-named Winston Wolf — comes in to help assassins Jules and Vincent tidy up an especially messy murder? “How come I’m on brain duty?!”
Well, it looks like Sony has called in the equivalent of three Winston Wolfs to begin cleaning up the security mess that …
Oops, they did it again, or at least did a whole lot more than Sony thought until yesterday, shortly before Japan news site Nikkei claimed a second data breach at Sony HQ involved the theft of nearly 13,000 credit card numbers. Hide your wallets, folks.
I knew something was up when Sony Online Entertainment (EverQuest, DC Universe …
“No it didn’t” neatly sums up Sony’s reaction to late-last-week rumors, led by various security firms, that the massive PlayStation Network fumble included customer credit card numbers.
In a PlayStation blog “network security” update this afternoon, Sony Computer Entertainment America spokesperson Patrick Seybold echoed Sony …
The first big step of Sony winning back the goodwill of consumers and repairing its reputation took place this weekend, when Kaz Hirai and other Sony execs took to the stage for a press conference. Hirai, an Executive Vice President who’s the no. 2 man at the Japanese tech giant, made the first executive acknowledgement of the fiasco …
Uh-oh, did hackers make off with your financial data in Sony’s PlayStation Network fiasco after all?
Sony recently claimed it was pretty sure–though not hermetically certain–that whoever poked around its PlayStation Network between April 17th and 19th didn’t make off with credit card data. Personal info like names, addresses, and …
We’re now a full week and two days into the PlayStation Network outage, and Sony’s stepping up its public relations campaign, posting the second in a new question and answer series.
The good news first, because there isn’t any bad news (or at least none Sony’s ready to share): your download history, friends lists, and PSN settings …
How did they know? What did they know? When did they know? You won’t get satisfactory answers to those questions, but you may gain insight into others with a new question and answer blog series about the PlayStation Network fiasco, launched last night by Sony spokesperson Patrick Seybold.
While Sony has yet to apologize to …
Well we can’t say we didn’t see this coming: the first (of presumably many) class action lawsuits was just filed by a California law firm seeking “remedy for over 70 millon consumers arising out of one of the largest data breaches in the history of the Internet.”
(More on TIME.com: Analyst: PlayStation Network Fiasco Will Be …
You have to sympathize with Sony. Rebuilding the PlayStation Network ground up with a gun to the head was never in the cards. And like any company suffering a sudden, mammoth, shocking customer data breach, it couldn’t have imagined events playing out quite like this.
That’s what caused this mess in the first place, of course. …
Your worldwide network hacked, your online service in shambles, over 75 million user accounts compromised, US Senators writing letters scolding you for keeping mum longer than you should’ve–if Sony’s had worse weeks, I couldn’t name one.
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I’m not a PlayStation Network member, or much of a gamer at all. But I’m kind of fascinated by Internet outages–and the one currently affecting Sony’s PlayStation Network and Qriocity service is one for the record books. In fact, it may be the worst one of all …
It’s been six days of hell for PS3 owners who’ve been without the use of the console’s PlayStation Network. However, with the latest update on the official Playstation blog, Sony PR rep Patrick Seybold reports that the PSN could be back up inside a week. But don’t celebrate just yet–it appears that things may be worse than first …
