Breaking: Anonymous strikes again, claims 10 million PSN accounts hacked
- Posted August 15th, 2012 at 14:30 EDT by Don Oliveira
- 12 Comments
[Update 1] According to Kotaku, this list looks like it may have been copied from a PasteBin listing dating back to March 19. This may be an elaborate hoax, so check back for more updates.
[Update 2] Shane Bettenhausen, an SCEA employee working in Business Development, has tweeted that this breach is “totally fake.” For the sake of PSN users worldwide, we hope this is true.
[Update 3] Kotaku, the website that originally "broke" this story, is now reporting that this story is false. Talk about jumping the gun.
Anonymous—or more specifically, one of its members—is again claiming success of having hacked into the PlayStation Network.
Apparently, the hacker has 50 gigabytes worth of email accounts, passwords, and user locations in hand. According to a new Anonymous posting, around 10 million accounts are “at risk,” says the hacker.
Going as far as listing each account and its respective (encrypted) password that has reportedly been infiltrated, Anon suggests that Sony is the target, and that no one other than him/her should receive credit for the work.
Let us know if your email address appears on this list. We’ll offer more news as it breaks.
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Ghost-Rhayne |
Ghost-Rhayne- 2:37pm EDT - August 15th, 2012
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Haha, yeah, Ok.This seems to have already been debunked over at GAF. I mean, the doc is from March lol.
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BlindMango |
BlindMango- 2:39pm EDT - August 15th, 2012
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The document written on Pastebin sounds like it's written from a butthurt little 5 year old using excessive amounts of swearing, this is who Anonymous is proud of representing their group? lmao.
Anyway, thankfully it's not real:
http://kotaku.com/5935040/anonymous-claims-psn-breach-affecting-10-million-accounts
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Ghost-Rhayne |
Ghost-Rhayne- 2:40pm EDT - August 15th, 2012
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This broke at Kraptaku. Seriously, these guys are some of the most incompitent journalists around. Sad and desperate for hits. lol
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DreDayDetox |
That's for me to know and you to find out.- 2:43pm EDT - August 15th, 2012
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Targets Sony, yet hacks gamers. LOL, does anyone see the retarded logic in this?
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Liam Scarred Thompson
- 2:45pm EDT - August 15th, 2012
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hm... may have a psn name for him not 100% certain yet tho. becarful of this person hes taken 10 accounts that i know of in groups of friends. he goes under the name of Mr_LegoMan, but this is also a stolen account I currentyly know that xXPsyko_rpgxX has been taken he also has the account i-AKz as well as more. so to all PSN members please be carefull.
Thanks Vamp2701
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TheTenth666
- 6:34pm EDT - August 15th, 2012
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when I read "50 gigabytes" I had a laugh, PSN ID + password is only a few characters, so to get some gigabytes it would take thousands of billions of "user information" to reach this
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David Coles
- 7:33am EDT - September 4th, 2012
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it is clearly big boss. he has an eye patch and an msf logo on his arm. my 1st thought is that the kid was raiden but the dates just don't match. The translation does suggest that its probably chico. The scared man i thought straight away was Volgin. Chances are though that its probably someone completely new.
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