Hackers successfully broke into 93,000 accounts at Sony over the last few days, once again impacting users of the Sony Entertainment Network, PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Online Entertainment services.
According to a blog post by Philip Reitinger, Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer, credit card details were not compromised.
As a precautionary step, Sony has frozen the compromised accounts and will email impacted users asking them to confirm their identity and reset their passwords.
Some compromised accounts “showed additional activity prior to being locked,” but the only hint from Sony as to what that activity might entail is that the company says it will “work with any users whom we confirm have had unauthorized purchases made to restore amounts in the PSN/SEN or SOE wallet.”
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Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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