Sony says that the credit card data of 77 million users of Sony's PlayStation Network which computer hackers attacked it would be impossible to penetrate because it has been encrypted. But reportedly, already many users have reported the use of credit cards are not valid. Use it started from the purchase of airline tickets in Germany up to the purchase of goods in grocery stores in Japan.
In Australia, a user reported the use of credit cards amounted to U.S. $ 2,000 that is not known. In Germany, one of other users reported the use of U.S. $ 1,500 in grocery stores are not doing.
On Thursday, April 28, 2011 and then, a security company reported a sales bid database containing 2.2 million credit card details on the black market. Card details, according to the seller, is the result of piercing the PlayStation Network. Despite the offer of credit card details is commonplace in the market we listen to the underground economy, a statement that the details came from the PlayStation users can not be verified.
Kevin Stevens, a senior researcher at Trend Micro, said it had found the conversation about the card data in several forums on the internet hackers. There are hackers that offers U.S. $ 100,000 for the database of fingerprints. In fact, one member of the forums revealed to him that he had tried to sell back the database to the Sony, but no response.
This issue will be questions that bombard Sony executives today. Because, on this afternoon, Kazuo Hiari, the number two at Sony Corp., will hold a press conference with reporters in Tokyo about computer hacking attacks on the network PlayStation Network. At the meeting at 14.00 local time, Sony will explain all the findings obtained from their investigation since the network was paralyzed last week.
Hacking attacks that include the largest scale in the world. Sony has warned that hackers had stolen the name, address, and possibly credit card details of 77 million PlayStation Network users who have contributed to Sony's annual revenue of U.S. $ 500 million.
Sony itself has explained that credit card numbers PlayStation Network users have been protected with encryption so that hackers can not be accessed. However, cyber criminals can still use the information that is not encrypted to launch a fraud scam via e-mail aliases.
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