>>>>>>>For those interested in hacking stories this might be a truly monster one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13192359
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>>>>>>I wonder if the guy who hacked it was disappointed that so many addresses in the hacked info involved "Living in parents' basement" <bg>
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>>>>>Except all those parents have credit card info on the PSN ... what fools.
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>>>>Saw on twitter today... can't verify authenticity:
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>>>>The hackers that hacked PSN are selling off the DB. They reportedly have 2.2 million credits cards with CVVs 
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>>>It is confirmed by Sony that the personal info was not encrypted, nor the credit card info. However, Sony deny that the CVV number was exposed. Who knows .. up to possibly 77 million potential accounts is what I last read somewhere. There is also the issue of identity theft since opening PSN accounts required some personal info to be provided. What fools (Sony that is).
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>>Sony is saying CC info was encrypted: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/04/27/qa-1-for-playstation-network-and-qriocity-services/
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>...which could be hacked by an array of playstations...hahaha http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/30/hackers-playstation-3-make-ssl-much-less-secure/

That SSL hack is a little different. I'd like to think that if Sony were hashing CC info, they'd use something serious, that would be difficult to crack no matter how large an array they could throw at it. OTOH if we're talking tens of millions of CC numbers, setting up a huge array may be worth it :-/

One more ironic thing is you can only assemble a compute array of PS3s by running Linux on them. And you can only do that by jailbreaking them (GeoHot etc.) since Sony has now closed the door on officially using alternate OSs.