PlayStation

Sony Says PSN Has Added Three Million Users Since Attack

Howard Stringer, the chief executive of Sony, said at a Berlin electronics show that the PlayStation Network has recovered from this spring’s attack and 23-day outage by adding three million new users in the three months since.


August 15, 2011
News

Elder Scrolls Developer Hacked. Again. Maybe.

Bethesda, the studio behind the Elder Scrolls games, sent out an email early Saturday morning alerting gamers to reset their forum passwords over a possible security breach.


June 28, 2011
News

Suspected LulzSec Hacker Out On Bail

Ryan Cleary, 19, was arrested early last week in connection with a string of attacks on websites around the world. He was recently released on bail.


June 17, 2011
In Real Life

Troll Faces, Empty Jackets Populate Animated Look At Hacker Civil War

Next Media Animation’s army of computer graphic animators churned out a story today neatly encapsulating the week’s escalating hacker wars.


June 9, 2011
PlayStation

Sony ‘May Never Know’ What The Hackers Stole, Who They Were

The Sony PlayStation Network is back online, but it was hacked back in April. Sony’s servers were breached and over seventy million accounts were compromised. Sony still doesn’t seem to be any closer to nabbing the individuals who carried out the attack.


May 21, 2011
News

Sony Hacked Again (But Not PlayStation)

Relative to the grand hack of last month, having one of Sony’s official sites turn up a phishing exploit doesn’t seem all that bad.


May 19, 2011
PlayStation

Sony PlayStation Network Password Reset Page Exploited, Customer Accounts Potentially Compromised

According to reports on Nyleveia.com, Eurogamer, and NeoGAF, Sony’s PlayStation Network password reset system-the one just put in place after the PSN hack-has been compromised, allowing hackers to change a PSN password if they know your email and date of birth. Exactly the sort of information that was released in the original hack.


May 13, 2011
PlayStation

Ubisoft Expects Minimal Impact From PlayStation Network Downtime

While the PlayStation Network security breach and subsequent downtime has had significant impact on many PlayStation 3 publishers, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says he expects his company’s cost to be minimal.


May 6, 2011
Nintendo

In A Post-PSN Hack World, Nintendo Club Asks For Your Privacy

Club Nintendo, Nintendo’s members with benefits club, is now asking members for permission to collect data. Just don’t say no.


May 5, 2011
PlayStation

Report: New York State Subpoenas Sony Over Breach

The New York Attorney General subpoenaed Sony over the data breach of its Playstation and Sony Online Entertainment networks, Bloomberg reports.