On the website of PlayStation Network (PSN), Sony announced that they are evaluating "the way to show gratitude" for the "remarkable patience" of the members of the platform is still blocked after detecting an intrusion. Sony does not give more details, but since the registration is free platform is possible that the reward is financial.
The company says it is working to restore service, some of whose functions could rebound next week. Sony says it will restore it so that no loss of situations where the players were before the crash and historical downloads, lists of friends or trophies won. The scope of data leakage of 77 million members of the platform remains the main concern.
Yesterday, security experts detected messages marginal Internet forums that are offered for sale listings of credit card numbers allegedly from the breach of PSN. Would total about 2.2 million records. The messages said they had offered the package to Sony's own $ 100,000 (67,600 euros).
A company spokesman has said that there is no record of this offer. Experts who have detected the messages have not been able to verify the existence of these lists for sale. Based on the names and aliases used by the pirates, vendors, and perhaps the authors of the attack, might be European.
Meanwhile, a growing number of authorities to open investigations into what happened and Sony management of this conflict. The French authority on Data Protection has opened a file. Its Spanish counterpart is in "preliminary proceedings" to establish its jurisdiction to the extent that the gap affects three million Spanish users, 330,000 of whom had registered a credit card.
Facua consumer organization, has filed a complaint with that agency and expects to be incorporated as part of the record, yesterday published a note recommending that Internet users cancel the cards that may be involved in that breach of security. Facua believes that banks should not charge for this administration to be a scam, but if they do, he says, the Internet could Sony claim the payment of expenses.
The company says it is working to restore service, some of whose functions could rebound next week. Sony says it will restore it so that no loss of situations where the players were before the crash and historical downloads, lists of friends or trophies won. The scope of data leakage of 77 million members of the platform remains the main concern.
Yesterday, security experts detected messages marginal Internet forums that are offered for sale listings of credit card numbers allegedly from the breach of PSN. Would total about 2.2 million records. The messages said they had offered the package to Sony's own $ 100,000 (67,600 euros).
A company spokesman has said that there is no record of this offer. Experts who have detected the messages have not been able to verify the existence of these lists for sale. Based on the names and aliases used by the pirates, vendors, and perhaps the authors of the attack, might be European.
Meanwhile, a growing number of authorities to open investigations into what happened and Sony management of this conflict. The French authority on Data Protection has opened a file. Its Spanish counterpart is in "preliminary proceedings" to establish its jurisdiction to the extent that the gap affects three million Spanish users, 330,000 of whom had registered a credit card.
Facua consumer organization, has filed a complaint with that agency and expects to be incorporated as part of the record, yesterday published a note recommending that Internet users cancel the cards that may be involved in that breach of security. Facua believes that banks should not charge for this administration to be a scam, but if they do, he says, the Internet could Sony claim the payment of expenses.
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