Some people on gaf are reporting that another 24.6 million user account data may have been stolen as well.

You have to wonder what else was stolen. This isn't over me thinks. "No evidence" is meaningless, they might as well shrug their shoulders.

only saving grace is that the data taken is 4yrs old even then this is still poor form.

This was not a second attack, it was confirmed by sony.

Anyone thinks it could be an inside job? cause SOE had some heavy layoffs in March... some of them could have access to the servers... >_>

I dont have any problem with this nor lose sleep over this.. I always use either a pre-paid credit card or a PSN points card and so goes for Xbox live, I always use Microsoft Points for every purchase I make..

PSN cards don't work for SOE MMOs?

On topic: I don't think this would be half as bad as what the PSN hack could of been. Since all these were 2007 cards, most of them have to be expired ;_; 

Credit Cards really aren't as big of a deal as the other stuff Sony lost... and like half of them were expired.

What's weird though was i thought SOE previously claimed they had lost nothing.

I don't think bank account numbers expire.

Found more info:

http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/pressrelease.vm

The personal information of the approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts that was illegally obtained, to the extent it had been provided to SOE, is as follows:

• name
• address
• e-mail address
• birthdate
• gender
• phone number
• login name
• hashed password. 

In addition to the information above, the 10,700 direct debit records from accounts in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain, include:

• bank account number
• customer name
• account name
• customer address.

good fucking riddance