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Millons of PSN, Windows LIVE, 2K etc passwords hacked.

7 million usernames and passwords doesn't seem like a lot to me when spread across that many services. Only 200,000 Live accounts? 620,000 Twitter accounts? Sounds less like they got access to any kind of master list of passwords and more like they brute forced the accounts of everyone using "password" as their password.

Maybe I'm wrong though and just looking for an excuse to not bother updating my accounts, haha.
 
Ehh. I never have my cards (or even my real credentials) on PSN or live.

If someone wants to rob "Noneofyour Business" at "21 kissmyass road" feel free.

Everything else has 2 step logins with txt notifications.

Im good.
 
IncandescentPrecept said:
It won't happen. You hear about these things all the time but never from people who got anything stolen.
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it has happened before and will happen again.

I'm not sure what logic you're working off of here. It hasn't happened to you personally and you haven't read about people who got anything stolen, so that means it hasn't happened?

Well hate to burst your bubble, it has :p
 
Guys it's okey, don't be so down on hackers. They're simply doing what comes natural to them. They can't be blamed for being bottom feeding parasites that have had their social graces and emotional maturity devolved into such a state that needlessly harming others "just for the lolz" is the only way they can get their rocks off. We shouldn't be going on a witch hunt for these people we should pitty them and help them treat and manage their disfunction. There are centers for the treatment if rapists and pedophiles, why can't there be one for hackers?
 
Are we just taking their word for it? Is there any evidence that servers were compromised and this info is not the result of something like phishing?
 
Probably just an old database of login credentials. There are lots of collections floating around. If they had any value it would be foolish to publicize having them. They are only worthwhile if people don't know to change them. The last time I checked one of these big hacks it had my email but the password was about 8 years old.
 
Las time i changed my psn pw, it asked for a capital letter, and no letter repeating itself.

Don't see that much in this list.


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One guy's password is supposedly 224 . Is that even possible?
 
in other news, reusing passwords is a bad idea

I wonder if this is even a different list than the Google and Dropbox "hacks"
 
ThoughtsOfSpeaking said:
Ehh. I never have my cards (or even my real credentials) on PSN or live.

If someone wants to rob "Noneofyour Business" at "21 kissmyass road" feel free.

Everything else has 2 step logins with txt notifications.

Im good.
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but someone can login to your account, change your login email and password and keep your games and you will never have access to them anymore.

that's what the public listing of account details can do.
 
I saw other people say they tried some of the accounts on the list, and they weren't even real. I doubt the list is real, or else this would've spread faster.
 
Daffy Duck said:
lol,

Found a link

http://t.co/MjN4mEmKNj

source
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Man, some of these emails are really out there. Reminds me of what email addresses used to sound like back in the 90s and early 2000s. Hard to believe they are legitimate.

Second observation is a simple one anyone can make: most of these passwords are absolutely atrocious. Words in the dictionary, cities, locations, a lot of "password".. If indeed they are legitimate accounts, sounds like they got brute forded. If you have a decent complex password, you should be fine I think.

Lastly, why would anyone want to claim they have some CIA account info? That is the last hornet nest you want to piss off.
 
Iblike how the article at the link tries to be objective. PSN accounts are hacked but not exclusively. Yet they are using a big fucking PSN logo. Wth?

Also. Fuck these hacker groups
 
Those are some rather big names they are dropping, so I'm sceptical of the validity of this. It's best to hold off until we get some acknowledgement or confirmation from any of the supposedly hit services.

The scope of the targets to me suggests they obtained account details from one source and tried to use them across a multitude of websites. That's no solace for the people that may have been hit, but it's likely that no services were compromised and a bunch of people fell for a phishing scam. The big lesson as always is to not re-use your same password across multiple services, and if possible to use a two-step authentication method.

ThoughtsOfSpeaking said:
Ehh. I never have my cards (or even my real credentials) on PSN or live.

If someone wants to rob "Noneofyour Business" at "21 kissmyass road" feel free.

Everything else has 2 step logins with txt notifications.

Im good.
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Way to throw my address under the bus.
 
Noisepurge said:
but someone can login to your account, change your login email and password and keep your games and you will never have access to them anymore.

that's what the public listing of account details can do.
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This is true, and honestly, it worries me.

But im not going to change my passwords more often than I already do. Its draining to be honest.

Really wish sony would set up 2 factor though.
 
What terribly misguided people. I am reading the interview on that site with one of the members.

"A company that doesn't care only for money would make the effort, which includes time and money, to make sure their servers aren't able to be crippled by a simple DDoS attack," Incognito said. "We decided to take action because, if we had the capability to stop corporate greed and we did nothing, that in itself is a crime. We thought DDoS attacks were appropriate because they do not affect customers in a monetary way, unlike leaking data -- although we are not opposed to leaking data."
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So when customers can't access WoW, despite paying for an expansion and for a monthly fee, that doesn't hurt them in a "monetary way"? People's time is worth money and their payment to access the servers is literally money wasted when they can't access the servers because of DDOSing.

They say they care about the way customers are treated, while harming those very same customers by leaking data...

"We are currently in possession of over 800,000 usernames and passwords from the 2K gaming studio. As of right now, our members as a whole have decided that leaking data is not what we do, and therefore we will not leak such damaging data," he said, adding that he had contacted 2K to inform the publisher of the vulnerability in its system -- and received no response.
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When asked if DDoS is a snake chasing its own tail -- that is, if no one engaged in DDoS attacks, then companies would not have to dedicate resources to protecting against them -- he once again pleads no comment.
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Quite disturbing people out there. http://www.cnet.com/au/news/the-gods-of-the-internet/
 
Mobius and pet octopus said:
What terribly misguided people. I am reading the interview on that site with one of the members.



So when customers can't access WoW, despite paying for an expansion and for a monthly fee, that doesn't hurt them in a "monetary way"? People's time is worth money and their payment to access the servers is literally money wasted when they can't access the servers because of DDOSing.

They say they care about the way customers are treated, while harming those very same customers by leaking data...



Quite disturbing people out there. http://www.cnet.com/au/news/the-gods-of-the-internet/
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Bunch of kids. Nothing more.
 
Come on that's stupid, just a quick look at the list and it makes no sense

3 numbers pw? Really? : gana***2@yahoo.com:224
It's getting better : sw***l@homtail.com:1 (homtail, yeah !)
Ok, this guy doesn't even have a pw : david_***strom@hotmail.com:


these so called hackers can't even generate a proper log/pass list...

(i censored parts, you know, just in case)
 
Mobius and pet octopus said:
What terribly misguided people. I am reading the interview on that site with one of the members.



So when customers can't access WoW, despite paying for an expansion and for a monthly fee, that doesn't hurt them in a "monetary way"? People's time is worth money and their payment to access the servers is literally money wasted when they can't access the servers because of DDOSing.

They say they care about the way customers are treated, while harming those very same customers by leaking data...





Quite disturbing people out there. http://www.cnet.com/au/news/the-gods-of-the-internet/
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Anytime hackers say there helping its a bunch of bs.
 
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