Andre Yoskowitz
12 Oct 2011 2:04
Sony has noted tonight that they have locked down 93,000 user accounts after a new security breach.
Hackers "using very large sets of sign-in IDs and passwords" gained access to 60,000 PSN accounts and 33,000 Sony Online Entertainment accounts.
The attacks occurred throughout the weekend, notes Sony, and affected "less than one-tenth of 1 percent" of all PSN and SOE accounts.
While the hackers did manage to verify sign-in IDs and passwords, credit card info and other personal data were never at risk.
Says Sony Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger (via Cnet):
In this case, given that the data tested against our network consisted of sign-in ID-password pairs, and that the overwhelming majority of the pairs resulted in failed matching attempts, it is likely the data came from another source and not from our Networks.