Sony vs. Valve: The Scale of a Breach

[Scoobes]

mjk45 said:

Scoobes said:
It's really too early to tell with the Valve hack. Until Valve have had more time to completely investigate the incident we can't say how bad it is. In Valve's favour, the hack was done through the forums so it might not be as bad as the PSN hack (at least on the surface); they only had to close down the forums and most of the damage seems to be more concerned with the forums than the actual service.

For PSN, the service was hacked directly resulting in massive closure of service. It was also the first major gaming hack to take place. Since then numerous devs and publishers have also been targeted. I think people are more forgiving now that it's happened industry-wide.

Actually Gabe said it went further than the forums because a data base was hacked and it contained credit card info and passwords.

Like you said it was the first publicised attack on a large network and as such was blown out of proportion and yes the number one thing was the closure since pretty soon after it reopened the storm subsided, another thing Sony had going against it that Valve doesn't is lots of 360 supporter's inflaming the situation, yes a minority but like most minority's a very vocal one.

Let's hope the encryption on the credit card info holds then.

And yeah, Sony were unlucky they were the first to experience such an attack. I don't think the 360 supporters really made too much of a difference as it was reported and misreported in a lot of mainstream media outlets. They probably did more PR damage than 360 supporters ever could.