But a blackout? how is fraud and negligence have anything to do with a blackout? and Enron straight up mislead their customers, stakeholders etc etc. THis is no where near the same level. not even close.

Enron had a huge influence on blackouts in California in 2000(not sure what year). :P

The information collected can serve for phishing scam and then serve for fraud if you answer to the phishing scam. The information collected while it was personal and is not acceptable if Sony were being negligent, isnt very sensitive.

aaah the artifical shortage situation? that was before the scandal wasn't it? my bad. when I read fraud I just thought of the scandal with their accounts.Didn't know about the blackouts situation and the enron connection.

Also EU.

It hit the 6 o'clock news 3 nights in a row.

RROD hurt the image of the 360 massively, I don't see this instance as having that effect on the hardware sales of the PS3 personally (unless it's hacked again within a few months).  The losses might ultimately be similar but the long term damage will be nothing compared to RROD.

the shittiest thing about this whole situation is that I'm gunna hear about this from trolls for years.

You must have not been around  long or not long enough to know that ethomaz uses anything to trash MS. He can usually be found trying to stealth flame anything 360. @ ethomaz.  It's,"Because I would hate to spend more money on new consoles," by the way. If your going to try to slip some flame in there, atleast try to make it sound presentable.

While this is going to cost Sony a lot of money, I doubt it'll be considered as bad as the RROD.  That went on for years and people are still getting it.  Some people I know have had up to 5 360s die on them, to the point that they stopped sending them to MS and just bought a PS3.  With something like a 40% fail rate, the RROD will go down in history as one of the biggest console hardware issues, if not the biggest.

In a year, people will hardly remember Sony went offline.  If only because they'll be playing online games again.  Its kind of hard to overlook the RROD when people are still getting them 6 years after the fact.

I don't claim not to have bias. Sony is my favorite game developer and system manufacturer. However I don't believe there is anyone who doesn't have bias. It's just a matter of whether you give more weight to your bias than you do to the facts. Nothing I said was untrue. If it seems like I'm minimizing the potential ramifications of the breach then it's probably because so many more people are (falsely) distorting the seriousness of the issue towards the other end of the spectrum. Take a look around. VGChartz is reporting the "possiblity" of the breach costing Sony $24.5 billion based on a completely unrelated estimate of the average loss a company eats per account leak from a security breach institute multiplied by the number of PSN accounts. Then if you bother to go to the institute's website and use their data breach risk calculator and imput all the information regarding Sony's scenario, the institute estimates the actual cost for Sony to be less than $20 million.

$24.5 Billion vs. Less than $20 Million. That's how badly this breach is being blown out of porportion. And comparing to to the RRoD issue or suggesting that this is going to directly lead to a mass of identity thefts isn't helping. I'm not suggesting that Sony shares no part in the blame. The fact remains that this is their system and their security should have been tight enough to prevent this and it wasn't. But the amount of FUD going around regarding this is ridiculous. It needs to be put in perspective.