mantlepiecek said:
thranx said:
mantlepiecek said:
The Sony PSN hack was blown out of proportion. In fact, if people actually had any economic perspective, they would know that.
Credit card banks have gotten hacked so really a company getting hacked isn't much of a rare thing. As far as people pointing at sony giving free games as the depth of the problem, I would look at it the way a company solves a problem. They gave free games for taking a month to restart their service, which meant they took their problems seriously.
Most corporations have that taboo of rolling over their consumers don't they? The only thing that made the hack serious was Sony themselves. They accepted it, and closed the service for a month.
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if i'm not mistaken Sony was fined by security ageniceis for their lax security after their investigations were done. will see if i can get a link. The fact that it took a month to fix their service vs hours or days should tell you how bad the breach was.
Edit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/24/sony-fined-over-playstation-hack
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The Information Commissioner's Office on Thursday said the security breach was "one of the most serious" it has handled under the Data Protection Act. The £250,000 fine is the maximum penalty awarded by the ICO against a private company.
"There's no disguising that this is a business that should have known better. It is a company that trades on its technical expertise, and there's no doubt in my mind that they had access to both the technical knowledge and the resources to keep this information safe," said David Smith, the ICO's deputy commissioner and director of data protection."
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Yep they were fined.
It didn't take a month to fix the problem though. It took more than a year to actually catch those who were behind it. As far as service was concerned they could have easily bought it back online after a few hours. They just didn't. Probably because they wanted to take extra steps to secure themselves even more?
Companies get hacked all the time. Maybe sony's security was weak, I don't know about that, but it doesn't need to be in order to be hacked.
Anyways they guys who did it got caught didn't they?
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Except you know.. you do know about it. It was just shown in the message above you. Companies get hacekd all the time. Companies DON'T get fined all the time... and DEFINITLY don't get fined the max all the time.
Only when they've been grossley irresponsible.
Saying other people get hacked is analgous to telling your friend "Other people get robbed" when you leave his videogame system in your car, with your drivers side window open in the middle of a bad neighberhood overnight.
