@thranx you know what? you're right. I was brought up not talk to crackheads.....convo is over

Erm, yes, PSN does ask you for credit card/debt card info so you can,well, you know, buy stuff. add to that, your address, all filed in one conveniant little package, and an identity thief can make out like a bandit, at your expense.And really, it doesn't matter if the address can be freely obtained on court case search website, unless a person is specifically looking for your address, they won't go there, and I hate to break it to you, but Identity thieves are not specific in their searching of addresses. They will take what they can easily get, in this case, possible milions of addresses along with other personal info, may have been taken.

As far as credit card info, who cares, Sony was still negligent in their security measures, and really, they are just covering their asses with the identity theft insurance. A $150 per-year policy for "x" number of years is far cheaper than having to deal with inevitable class action lawsuits, as well as individual ones served by anybody who actually does become a victim of identity theft due to this PSN fiasco. So to coin your phrase. "Checked like a school boy." ; )

Good for you, but that is purely anecdotal, and is utterly meaningless in this debate.

Tony_Stark, just like I said PSN never asked one's banking info..... Routing # and Account numbers.. CC (credit card) which aperently you did not understant what it ment in the previous post. CC means credit card. DC is a debit card never have anything to do with one'a banking information. Now if a bunch of hackers chose to steal information that in turn led to discovering of banking information............thats on them. PSN doesn't ask for Banking Info. Cc and DC thats how you buy stuff, kid.

Though yes... there were.  As opposed to here where there really hasn't been any trolling... outside people bringing up off topic stuff to people reasonably complaining. 

It was mostly "This and RROD! No wonder!".  Though I tended to avoid the Microsoft section... since all it basically did was troll microsoft 24/7 anyway until the PS3 caught up in sales numbers.

I almost changed his password to "retardchunks" and told any PSN friends he had on there that he had slept with their dad and wanted to let them know that a topical cream would take care of the sores but then I would have lost my Portal 2 co-op partner.  

Umm, yes debt cards are directly linked to bank accounts. With a name address and debit card number, Identity thieves could concievably gain access to your personal account. But you do realize that bank accounts are just one piece of the identity theft puzzle. They can use your identity to get new credit cards, take out loans in your name, and all other sorts of nasty things that could destroy your credit, and future. I suggest you do a little more research on identity theft before spewing this mis-information on the subject all over the internet. Oh, and next time you decide to call somebody a "kid" (which btw, is flaming, so have a good vacation) make sure you try to use real English and proper grammer.