{"id":3683,"date":"2011-05-18T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:06:07","slug":"psn-password-reset-exploit-discovered-web-based-sign-in-services-taken-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/psn-password-reset-exploit-discovered-web-based-sign-in-services-taken-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"PSN Password Reset Exploit Discovered; Web-Based Sign-In Services Taken Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.g4tv.com\/ImageDb3\/270139_S\/PSN-Password-Reset-Exploit-Discovered-Web-Based-Sign-In-Services-Taken-Offline.jpg\" alt=\"PSN Password Reset Exploit Discovered; Web-Based Sign-In Services Taken Offline\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s PlayStation Network has once again been compromised after an  exploit was discovered in the newly launched password reset system that  was recently brought online as part of Sony\u2019s PSN relaunch.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Eurogamer<\/em>,  cyber attackers were able to use this exploit to change user passwords  and potentially compromise user accounts. In order to do so, hackers  would need to know a user\u2019s E-mail address and date of birth, which  would normally be a bit of a stumbling block, but as millions of PSN  users are intimately aware, these pieces of information were among those  that were stolen during the historic PSN attack that took place last month.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent further damage, Sony has pulled the plug on PSN sign-in  portals across its various websites, including PlayStation.com and  Qriocity.com, however, as Sony told <em>Eurogamer<\/em>, \u201cIn the meantime  you will still be able to sign into PSN via your PlayStation 3 and PSP  devices to connect to game services and view Trophy\/Friends  information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"readmore\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe exploit was first discovered by a poster at Nyleveia,  who promptly contacted Sony about the issue. It took Sony several hours  to respond to the message, but it was reported that the sign-in  services were taken offline 15 minutes after Sony responded to the  original notice.<\/p>\n<p>Sony is reportedly addressing the exploit, but in the meantime,  Nyleveia recommends changing the E-mail address associated with your PSN  account just to be safe, assuming that isn&#8217;t a huge hassle for you or  anything.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Sony announced that the PlayStation Network was going to be restored in a series of  phases starting with a mandatory password change. The first thing to be  restored was online gaming for the PlayStation 3, and things like  purchasing stuff from the PS Store will be available sometime in the  future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony\u2019s PlayStation Network has once again been compromised after an exploit was discovered in the newly launched password<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","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=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}