| airRoman said: @thranx yes, like the bank accounts that PSN never asked you for and your address can be obtain freely on any courts casesearch websites............. as far as CC info you're good for upto 1mil. Dont you read? Checked like a school boy |
Erm, yes, PSN does ask you for credit card/debt card info so you can,well, you know, buy stuff. add to that, your address, all filed in one conveniant little package, and an identity thief can make out like a bandit, at your expense.And really, it doesn't matter if the address can be freely obtained on court case search website, unless a person is specifically looking for your address, they won't go there, and I hate to break it to you, but Identity thieves are not specific in their searching of addresses. They will take what they can easily get, in this case, possible milions of addresses along with other personal info, may have been taken.
As far as credit card info, who cares, Sony was still negligent in their security measures, and really, they are just covering their asses with the identity theft insurance. A $150 per-year policy for "x" number of years is far cheaper than having to deal with inevitable class action lawsuits, as well as individual ones served by anybody who actually does become a victim of identity theft due to this PSN fiasco. So to coin your phrase. "Checked like a school boy." ; )
"with great power, comes great responsibility."
