Sony admits your infos compromised, passwords, etc...

[Galaki]

SvennoJ said:

Galaki said:

SvennoJ said:

yo_john117 said:

Grimes said:

I don't think that people understand that identity theft is more than stealing credit card numbers. If they have all your info, they can possibly get new credit cards, co-sign other credit, get other forms of ID and other types of mischief. None of these things will show up on your credit card statement. You won't know you've been a victim til long after the thieves have moved on.

This is what scares me and most people don't seem to understand how bad this really is.

Sony better pay all that protection stuff for everyone!

You need a little more then someone's name address and birthdate for identity theft...

Did you leave your bank account numbers on psn, social insurance number, driver's license number?

You must have not hear of social engineering.

Sure I have that's why I said in my previous post

Just be vigilant for phishing scams. Don't give out any personal info over the phone or email or fill out any info online before you are 100% certain who you are connected to. If they contact you then it's most likely not who they say they are.

I've had people call claiming to be of an internet security company wanting to discuss my internet usage to help protect me. People coming to the door wanting to see my utility bill to show me how I can save money. Emails from all kinds of stuff wanting to 'confirm' details etc. Don't respond to all that nonsense,

Anyway the info you stored on psn is readily available through national census info, phonebooks, birth date lookup sites, email address finders etc. Sure it's dangerous for people who are too trusting and they'll be easy to pick out if the passwords really were stored as plain text. Who do you think they'll go after, someone with a password like G73jb&5T or someone using the name of a pet. Don't use the same password either.

It doesn't mean it would be used directly on you. But it could be someone else calling your bank pretending to be you.

Think about it. The more info they have on you, the more likely they pass through the other end. Especially those stupid secret answers/questions like your first pet's name or some such.