You must have not hear of social engineering.

I'm extremely disappointed with Sony. Just called my credit card company for a replacement. The guy on the phone knew what I was talking about; "Oh, is it about the PlayStation thing? Give me a moment." And it's a good thing I use unique passwords for every site.

If My credit card gets used, Im Gonna Sue Sony........IM NOT PLAYING!!

I'm not making anything sound better at all. They are at fault here for not informing their customers as quickly as they could have. I however don't see a need to put a full force blame on them. They didn't hack into a network and steal our information. Those are the people we should be all up in arms at.

Also I bought a 360 knowing well that I may get a RROD. I enjoy my other consoles. Enjoy your ban buddy because you most definitely deserve it.

Sure I have that's why I said in my previous post

Just be vigilant for phishing scams. Don't give out any personal info over the phone or email or fill out any info online before you are 100% certain who you are connected to. If they contact you then it's most likely not who they say they are.

I've had people call claiming to be of an internet security company wanting to discuss my internet usage to help protect me. People coming to the door wanting to see my utility bill to show me how I can save money. Emails from all kinds of stuff wanting to 'confirm' details etc. Don't respond to all that nonsense,

Anyway the info you stored on psn is readily available through national census info, phonebooks, birth date lookup sites, email address finders etc. Sure it's dangerous for people who are too trusting and they'll be easy to pick out if the passwords really were stored as plain text. Who do you think they'll go after, someone with a password like G73jb&5T or someone using the name of a pet. Don't use the same password either.

It doesn't mean it would be used directly on you. But it could be someone else calling your bank pretending to be you.

Think about it. The more info they have on you, the more likely they pass through the other end. Especially those stupid secret answers/questions like your first pet's name or some such.

They said originally it wasnt hacked... thus they hid it

Fantastic. I just got an e-mail that I can pay for my Dissidia scroll (had it pre-ordered), but guess what? I had my CC replaced because of this breach, and this scroll is in limited quantities. They only gave three days to pay for it or else it'll be offered to those on the wait list.

So yeah, Eat shit and die Sony.

Quickly go out and pick up a pre-paid debit card from Walmart? They only cost like $4.50 or something 

I'm not too worried about that. When I call my bank to for example reset the password to my internet access they check my phone number where I'm calling from, need my client card number and ask questions about other products I have with them, and finally some details of a recent statement they sent me. Then they sent a temporary password to my email account and give me a follow up call for evaluation.

They know all about social engineering too.

That's why I rather use credit cards for online payment. I would never put my account number or client card number online.

You have to keep paying attention though, the system is never fool proof. Somehow someone managed to use my overseas account to subscribe to digital sattelite tv. One phone call to my bank was enough to cancel it and get my money back. It was only 15 euros a month, more likely human error then intentional fraud. The real upsetting part was why do I pay more then 4 times as much here for digital tv!

About those secret questions, don't use them. I usually enter a random bunch of letters as answer since I don't trust leaving it blank either.