| o_O.Q said: @rath a simple google search ( that took me a minute ) yields these : engadget ( dot ) com/2011/03/18/rsa-hacked-data-exposed-that-could-reduce-the-effectiveness-o/ downloadsquad ( dot ) switched ( dot ) com/2011/02/11/eharmony-hacked-usernames-and-emails-stolen/ digg ( dot ) com/news/technology/Pirate_Bay_Hacked_2 and several more... this is what i mean by people buying into this propaganda... you seem to suddenly assume that all other networks are invulnerable to these kind of breaches... when its glaringly obvious that they aren't... given the time and the determination hackers can breach ANY network |
Once again none of those data leaks was anywhere near on the scale of the PSN leak. The closest would be the Pirate Bay hack which lost 4M users data (still only a fraction of the ~90M users lost by Sony), however that data was also far less extensive than the data lost by Sony consisting mainly of username/email.
Once again the PSN/SoE breach was on a much larger scale than normal. To claim leaks like this are common is simply false, hacks on this scale are very rare.
