Sony Defend Against Attack on 100m PSN Accounts

According to Sony, a hacker attempted to use around 100 million username and password combinations on the PSN. Of those, 0.1% resulted in success and those account have now been suspended, emails sent to the owners, and any activity since the successful login is being investigated.

There’s no information on the time-scale of the hack attempt, but at least according to the information given out by Sony, the security defences put in place were a pretty solid success.

Sony say the massive number of login credentials came from “a large amount of data obtained from one or more compromised lists from other companies, sites or other sources”. Which I would assume means all of those breached sites from earlier in the year. And there’s plenty of them, from gaming circles alone we’ve seen passwords haemorrhage from Sega, Bethesda, Codemasters, Kotaku, and not forgetting Sony themselves (on more than one occasion).

Still, only 93,000 accounts were accessed (seriously, never use the same password for multiple sites, shit like this happens), and Sony detected and locked those accounts as fast as they could. Mind you, that’s not prevented sites like Edge scaremongering reporting on this news as “Sony hacked again, 93,000 accounts breached”.