HappySqurriel on 27 April 2011
It is still too early to say how bad it is, but it does beg some pretty big questions on how Sony treats personal information of their customers ...
I have been involved in the creation of several systems that hold personal data, and every system I have built has been designed with the intention that even if a hacker did get access to all of your information none of it was stored in a format that would provide much benefit to them. Credit cards, passwords, and other important information should either remain unstored or be hashed/encrypted to prevent them from being stolen.
