What right does a girl have to let someone rape her

Agreed but the point is, no system is 100% secure. Chances are that the people who work for internet security firms are also of the same caliber as the hackers themselves. What a man can build, another man can destroy. Sony should've had more security if theirs was lax but determined hackers always win. What happened with the ps3 itself again? Can anyone deny that was some solid security?

The point is, if people are so worried about their data, they should ignore the digital age and go back to living in caves. Pretty sure even the govt gets hacked. They wont tell you though.

No, what they should do is hold companies accountable for securing their data while at the same time being cautious themselves.

Name all the networks in the same industry as Sony that are more secure 

Remember HBgary? They're a tech security company and even they got hacked by Anonymous. I'm all for companies being accountable but folks also have to see the system for it's imperfections and stop freaking out unnecessarily. This is why credit cards refund unauthorized transactions.

hopiing the hacker in any way is doing this just to make sony look incompetent is just moronic thinking and shouldn't even be brought up cause it does not matter.

the word is now OFFICIALLY out that credit card data, personal info, even bank data has been jepordized.  i dont' care if it is only 20k out of 70 million, this is going to make peopel very hesitent about registering their info again.

while psn has been free, it will still take a hit, but thsi is HUGE for SOE.  I can see a lot of people adn i mean A LOT moving to just another MMO.  and thats easy enough, tehre are a ton of MMO's and SOE mmo's are not the  best anyway.  and now for all upcoming MMO's.  Is a company going to want to work with SOE? 

@Grimes

no you absolutely have a point there im absolutely certain that there are other networks that are better protected... like the us militery's own networks that were breached recently but in this context for me that is irrelevant "given the time, resourses and motive hackers will breach any network" i may be wrong on that but im quite sure that whoever broke into psn would have done so regardless of any security procedures put into place by sony if they were determined enough... i mean if the networks funded and maintained by the mlitery can be breached where does that leave other networks... but yes we can definitely agree that they should have made it harder for the hackers who may have broke in anyway if they had the resolve to do so and that they were negligent in terms of maintainance and upkeep of the network

By "jeopardized' do you mean that said 20k people have had fradulent activity on their accounts in relation to the PSN breach? I would like to see the link to where you got said info because I follow a couple of gaming sites and never read any such thing.

Of course PSN will take a hit. After all, there are people who belive their govt should be doing more to protect them from radiation from Japan.

do you know what jeopardized means?

it does not mean it happened.  it basically means they are at risk.  someone has their info and it could be used.  same as the rest of the 70 million people.  all 70 million people were in jeopardy of getting their info taken.  it seems only 24 million or something did, and only like 13k credit card data did, or whatever the stats are.  but when the news first broke every psn accaount was in jeopardy of being compramised.

So they are at risk...just like the other 70 million....I still dont get why you singled out the 20k ? I'm yet to see any stats  showing actual compromise. people just seem to be pulling random numbers from their behinds. Fact: nobody's CC has been seen any unauthorized use as a result of the psn breach as of this moment. Fact 2: if you use the internet, your information is in jeopardy of being compromised period....yet people still post their complaints of vgchartz.

For starters, 24 million is probably a more accurate tally of the number of real psn accounts not 77 million. I alone have 5 and I dont know anyone who has only 1 account.