{"id":3436,"date":"2011-04-25T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2011-04-25T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T19:58:47","slug":"hackers-bring-down-playstation-network-may-have-stolen-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/hackers-bring-down-playstation-network-may-have-stolen-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker&#8217;s Bring Down PlayStation Network, May Have Stolen Credit Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3437\" title=\"sony_playstation_32\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32.jpg 604w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sony_playstation_32-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sony Corp. was trying to determine Monday  whether users&#8217; credit card numbers or other personal information had  been compromised as the outage of its global PlayStation Network entered a sixth day, PC World reported.<\/p>\n<p>The company confirmed that an &#8220;external  intrusion&#8221; by hackers disrupted the service, affecting more than 75  million users worldwide who use it to play video games against friends online, stream movies and shop online.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman  Satoshi Fukuoka said the company was conducting a &#8220;thorough  investigation&#8221; into the outage, which began April 20.<\/p>\n<p>He said Sony did not yet know if users&#8217;  credit card information or other personal information had been  compromised in the attack, but the company would immediately inform  users if it had.<\/p>\n<p>A posting on the official PlayStation blog  Monday by Patrick Seybold, Sony senior director of corporate  communications and social media, gave no indication when PlayStation  Network service might return.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have an update or  timeframe to share at this point in time,&#8221; Seybold wrote. &#8220;We&#8217;ll keep  you updated with information as it becomes available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seybold said late Saturday that Sony was completely rebuilding its systems to strengthen its network infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Players can still play games offline, but are unable to challenge others over the internet, one of the console&#8217;s key features.<\/p>\n<p>Hacker group Anonymous was originally  suspected of causing the disruption as it had previously vowed  retribution against the Japanese electronics giant after it took legal  action two hackers.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a message on its website Friday,  titled &#8220;For Once We Didn&#8217;t Do It,&#8221; the group denied responsibility,  saying that while it was possible that individual hackers had targeted  the network, Sony was not an official target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff Sony Corp. was trying to determine Monday whether users&#8217; credit card numbers or other personal information had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}