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Muhshuhu on 27 April 2011
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imaprettyhotguy said:

Still a maybe to me, there's no evidence that any information was even acessed let alone taken and psn is down thats all we really know

Other than Sony confirming that things were indeed stolen, you are correct.

kitler53 said:

of course it was anon -- they are a flock of birds flying in the same direction.  anon made it their mission to terrorize sony, sony has been terrorized.  

... might not be same same physical people as who released the original video but they are flying in the same direction which is how anon has defined themselves therefore it was anon regardless.


I'll  correct you by simply saying the direction is not similar, only the target is the same. You are basically comparing a group (anon) that did the equivalent of beating up your mail box, (or leaving a flamming bag of crap on your door step), to a group that potentially stole everything from your house, then burnt it down, piled up the ash and shit all over it.

While the target is the same, the method and how severe the damage is entirely different.

Galaki said:
Muhshuhu said:

I still blame sony though, such a large hole should have been caught in testing. They also should have been using a 256 bit encryption instead of a 128,  atleast for the credit information.


The thing I want to know is whether they encrypt the data at all, including passwords.

From all the breaches done before to banks, etc. They hackers got personal infos and not passwords because passwords are hashed etc.

Base on the news so far, it seems Sony store the passwords the same way as all the other pieces... i.e. plain text.

You actually bring up an interesting point and I could be wrong for trusting certain sources saying there was a 128 encryption. Because while 128 isn't the best, it is still pretty damn good, so for a group to decrypt that in only a couple of days seems highly unlikely.
[speculation]So assuming there even is an encryption, it means that these guys have had access longer than Sony thought and had be whittling away at the encryption. Or it was a old employee who knew and was involved or leaked the encryption that did this.[/speculation]
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You are indeed correct, the personal data was not encrypted at all.