Reposting this from one of my local haunts:
There has been a security breach of Sony’s security for the PlayStation Network, resulting in a compromise of information. This may include:
Your name
Your address (city, state, and zip)
Country
E-mail address
Birthday
PSN password and login name
Your credit card information (potentially)
Summary:
1: PSN Servers were hacked between April 17th and April 19th.
2: Some or all of PSN users have had their information compromised. This includes username, birthdate, real name, address information, and more than likely, but not yet confirmed, credit card information aside from CV security codes.
3: Any passwords you share with your PSN account should be changed. If you share the same password for your PSN registered email account with the actual email account, change your email password immediately. Also change security questions and answers. This should include all social networking sites.
4: As a precaution, you may want to cancel your credit card/bank card and order a new one.
4.5: If you are not going to cancel your card, review your bank statement or credit card statement for the next 2 years very closely or until the card expires and you are issued a new card with a new expiration date.
5: If you do not remember which credit card / bank card you used, go into your email account and review any purchases which added funds to your wallet on PSN. On that email you will notice the first 4, and last 4, digits of the credit card / bank card number you used.
6: If you play MMORPG’s and used the same password as your PSN password to log in, regardless if your username is the same as your account login name for that MMORPG, change the appropriate password in said MMORPG and change security questions.
You may want to change the passwords of any accounts with the same log-in name (including ones here), as well as look into taking care of your card. The leak of credit card information has at this time not been confirmed but Sony admits there is a possibility.
You can find some good reads about it basically everywhere on the internet, though here’s a more recent summary of what you can and should do, and what Sony’s stance on the matter is.
Just a heads up for those of you who haven’t heard of it yet. Best of luck.
