Ballmer: Security is MS top priority!

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dsister said:

A203D said:

Xbox Live was hacked in 2007. but because the different ways data are stored within the respective infrastructures for whatever reasons the hackers who targetted PSN were able to obtain personal information. where as the Live hack was a different thing althogether.

Link to prove they were hacked in 07? I really haven't heard anything about this. O.o

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/microsoft-investigating-possible-xbox-live-hacking/

http://www.gamingunion.net/news/sony-messed-up-but-they-arent-alone--4823.html

i'm sure if you type it in you'll find a bit more sources.

this incident has been forgotten, even i didnt know about it. but clearly it was a serious breach of security. although i'm guessing Microsoft handled the PR a lot better with Sony having more experience with this type of thing from Windows.

when it comes down to it, all that we knew about the hack was what the media told us. its was not disclosed until yesterday when we found out our cc information was not breached.

Sony have not handled the PR well, i dont think the media have understood the issue, since Sony said nothing about it until a few days later. and we know they have been doing a lot to rectify the issue, like completely rebuilding the PSN or tracking down the hacker.

and people saying 'you get what you pay for'... are forgetting that no system is unbreachable. there was a guy who broke into the military a few years ago for information about UFOs. China is rumoured to be responsible for major attacks on the Canadian digital infrastrucure - which they have not been able to defend against. so its ridiculous to assume because you pay for a system that system is invincible.