Yesterday it emerged that the Sony Online Entertainment portal had been taken down due to an intrusion. Today it emerges that this hack has resulted in the disclosure of more financial information to hackers.
Here's the scale of the breach:
The 24.6 million accounts consisted of:
Basically, the sort of stuff that could be used to commit identity theft.
This outdated database contained:
This is all bad stuff.
While Sony has gone on record to say that it will give PlayStation Network and Qriocity free stuff, but I think we're beyond that just now, and that Sony should offer all affected customers a subscription to a fraud protection service. Sure, it'll cost Sony some coin, but it would be the right thing to do given the scale of this mess.