Which has a better chance of happening?

[Tony_Stark]

brendude13 said:

Tony_Stark said:

brendude13 said:

dsister said:

From PSN, I doubt it. But SOE had unencrypted bank numbers and cc numbers. 

Plus you could always get your address leaked on the internet 

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/sony-removes-data-stolen-hackers_n_858913.html

Oh no! Not my address!

There is also a sign near my house with my road name on! That is suicide! And I have my house number on my door! What am I thinking!? Today, somebody in red shorts came up to my house and put a piece of paper through my letterbox. It had my address on it! How did he find it out!?

HELP MEEEEEEE!

...Anyway, enough of that xD. I agree, what a load of overblown nonsense. It's just a load of scaremongering to get web page hits and make lots of money. The media are trying to pass off pathetic speculation as fact. People are too stupid to find out the facts for themselves. The articles on the VGChartz home page did this aswell, they were almost as bad as IGN.

Erm, I really don't think you realize what COMPROMIZED PERSONAL DATA means. It means that the hackers have access to PSN user's credit card numbers addresses, phone numbers, and anything else that was stored on the PSN servers. Whether or not the hackers use this info is completely irrelevant. Fact of the matter is, they CAN use it. Obviously, you don't care about the fact that you very easily could become a victom of identity theft, but rather, care only about protecting Sony. It's kinda sad actually.

You obviously completely ignored every comment that was made so far on this thread.

Only the stupid ones...so yeah...lol

You can't be certain if the personal data was taken, even if it was, big deal. Names and addresses are useless, that kind of stuff can be found on Facebook or through a Google search.

You can't be certain it wasn't. If I was a PSN user I would be doing the smart thing and canceling my credit cards associated with with my PSN account. Also, I would be pissed that Sony allowed my personal info, which I gave to them in confidence that they wouldn't let anybody else see it, to get comprimised. No matter how you spin this, it's a big deal, sure my personal info can be retrieved from the internet if somebody looks for it, but in this case, the hackers didn't have to go looking for it, it was all in one place. FYI Sony IS offering a 1 Mil dollar identity theft insurance policy to all PSN users, if the personal data was not comprimised, they wouldn't be doing that. ; )

The only cause for concern is credit card numbers, which weren't thought to be taken, they didn't have a PIN and they were heavily encrypted. By now you probably have no idea what I am talking about, just read the statements from SONY and quickly google "encryption". Then try to access your bank account without a PIN number and maybe your common sense will kick in.

No, no, and no. Hackers can do a lot if they have your email address, and even more if they have an email address attatchted to a phone number or home address. And I'de like to know what kind of encription was used...just because they were supposably heavily encrypted doesn't mean that the incription method was worth jack. Once again, it doesn't matter, Sony doesn't know if hackers were able to get through the encryption or not, and that is reason enough for concern.

You are proving my point even further, I AM protecting SONY, because they are being criticised for things they never did or for things that never even happened, there are too many gullable morons on the internet who are going to believe everything they read.

Your point doesn't have a leg to stand on. Once again, you would rather protect Sony, a multi million dollar corporatiuon that doesn't give a rats ass about you until you pull out your wallet, than look out for your own interests and do everything in your power to ensure you don't get taken by Identity theives, which could end up destroying any hopes of a future for you.