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PlayStation Hackers: We’ve Got 2.2M Credit Cards

Users report fraud, but it may be coincidence

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 29, 2011 10:14 AM CDT

(Newser) – Chatting in online forums, hackers are citing a huge haul from the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network: They claim they now have access to some 2.2 million credit cards. The assertion can’t be verified, say experts—but a number of users are reporting suspicious charges on their cards. Still, that could be pure coincidence, notes the Guardian; any large enough sample of credit card users will contain some fraud victims.

The hackers say they even have credit card security codes, but Sony says that’s not possible: "Your credit card security code has not been obtained because we never requested it," the company tells users. Among the fraud claims: some $1,500 in purchases from a German grocery store using a US credit card, as well as dozens of claims regarding charges from Japanese shops and German airlines. Hackers are also saying they offered to sell the user database back to Sony, but the firm said no. A Sony rep says he had no knowledge of any such occurrence.

A customer watches a monitor showing Sony's PlayStation 3 at a Tokyo electric shop on April 27, 2011.
A customer watches a monitor showing Sony's PlayStation 3 at a Tokyo electric shop on April 27, 2011.   (Getty Images)
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stephinrazin
Apr 29, 2011 2:49 PM CDT
The Sony PS3 console was "hacked" or more appropriately, jailbroken, by iPhone hacker, Geohot. He managed to reverse engineer his own Playstation 3 to run homebrew applications on it. And then later released the method to the public, through his site, geohot.com. Sony hit him with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages/videos. Paypal have granted access to Sony for them to view Geohot's PayPal account. The judge of the case has given permission to Sony to view the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com. Sony are also after another group of hackers for the same case. The PS3 hack which GeoHot released can be compared to the "unlocking" of a phone (i.e. Once you purchase the phone, it's yours, you can do whatever it is you want with it.) In response to Sony going after people Anonymous launched a response. http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/opsony.html
Terrankiller
Apr 29, 2011 1:04 PM CDT
That SnorgsTee shirt girl is really hot.
LoginsSuck
Apr 29, 2011 11:46 AM CDT
The cake is a lie.

 
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