New PSN attack is more bigger but it wouldn’t hurt the members – Unknown

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Rath said:

CGI-Quality said:

 

As a matter of fact, several companies have lost customer info (some on a significant scale). Again, the PSN situation dwarfs recent attacks and nobody has denied that Sony f*ed up on security, but it has been exaggerated and other attacks have been nearly as bad. They just weren't against a gaming network itself, giving Sony's situation more headlines. Simple matter of media coverage.

It's all about scale, as you say the Sony attack dwarfs pretty much all others. The biggest of the other attacks recently have been ~1 million customers, Sony was ~100 million. While recent attacks have been bad (and show that other companies also have pretty poor security) none of them were in charge of as much customer data as Sony, which is why Sony has been more widely covered - also I don't think most of the other hacks involved credit card information in any form, and credit cards get people twitchy.

This is where things get blown out of proportion, some people actually listen to the media. There aren't even 100 million Playstation customers, let alone accounts. The true number is less than that, far less. And that is without taking into account whether they had access to ALL of the PSN accounts. Throw in the fact that all of the information the hackers gained was worthless (unless you're extremely paranoid) and you will realise that this PSN fiasco has been blown way out of proportion.