So you want Sony to face the full force of the law? Yes, you're right! Glad we're on the same page.

Once again none of those data leaks was anywhere near on the scale of the PSN leak. The closest would be the Pirate Bay hack which lost 4M users data (still only a fraction of the ~90M users lost by Sony), however that data was also far less extensive than the data lost by Sony consisting mainly of username/email.

Once again the PSN/SoE breach was on a much larger scale than normal. To claim leaks like this are common is simply false, hacks on this scale are very rare.

Who on earth would use their real information for Pirate Bay LOL!

After reading through this entire thread I have to say this is the post that I agree with most. 

Seriously I cannot fathom how people can be like that :S

I for one hope this doesn't hurt the credit card holders.

No. They're being accused of not sufficiently protecting their customer's private information and not informing them promptly. It's not funny either.

Do not feed the trolls. You feed trolls by responding to them. Noone is reading his words and thinking "he makes a good point." I know it's easier said than done, but just walk away. It's like the people that would argue in Sony Defense Force comments. Don't get yourself worked up. Life gets so much better when you can read what guys like him say, lean back and smirk, and just ignore it.

what was the scale of the eharmony hack? i don't remember seing it posted or the rsa? furthermore the pirate bay hack as far as i remember from reading also gave up info like ip addresses

@reviniente

"No. They're being accused of not sufficiently protecting their customer's private information and not informing them promptly."

what have i ever said that contradicts this?

all i've ever commented on was that people are foolishly making assumptions that data leaks are rare in the context of networks like sony nothing m ore nothing less you're like the third person who's tried to put words in my mouth figuratively

i've always agreed that sony should have taken better care in updating their network and that they were negligent for that... however in terms of the time they released the info as far as i know they brought in external parties to investigate the situation and as a result they were not sure right away about what happened and only had conclusive evidence at the time they made the report... but the argument can be made that if there was a possibility of data loss they should still have at least released a statement on that ( in terms of this im not really sure suppose no loss had occured and people were inconvenienced because of assuptions made in terms of making changes that didn't need to be made )