PSN Hacked: How to Protect Your Info

As some of you might know, the PlayStation Network has been down hard for over a week due to a security breach. Sony has finally announced that it was caused by an external intrusion (ie hackers) and that PSN user's personal and credit card info has also been compromised.

Basically, Sony pissed off the hacker community with their arrogance and legal actions, hackers retaliate by taking down PSN and compromising user info.

According to G4TV.com, here are some steps to protect yourself:
- Delete info from your PSN account
- Place a fraud alert on your credit reports, and review your credit reports
- Close the accounts that you know, or believe, have been tampered with or opened fraudulently
- File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission
- File a report with your local police or the police in the community where the identity theft took place.

If you want to read more about the whole event, click here.

The even more scum-baggy part is that Sony has known that user info was compromised since April 20 but didn't make announcements until 26 April. This has lack of notification and consideration for its appx. 75 million users has Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut demanding answers from the President and CEO of Sony.

And to add icing to the cake, a class-action lawsuit has been filed against Sony due to their failure "to maintain a proper firewall" and "computer security system," "failure to properly encrypt data," "unauthorized storage and retention of data," and violation of "Payment Card Industry Data Standard(s) and rules and regulations."

If you've been affected by this security breach you can sign on to the case here.

I dislike Sony so much that it actually has taken a lot out of me to even write this blog post, but I felt like people should know how to at least protect their info.