Attackers have at 93.000 members of PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Online-service the password is cracked. The cracked passwords were supposedly from leaked databases from other services.
The kraakpoging is passed to 60,000 customers of PSN and Sony Entertainment Network, and has 33,000 members of Sony Entertainment Online. That Sony themselves published. The PlayStation-maker has the conscious accounts locked and analyzes or attackers to have something done with the compromised accounts. Sony says that the cracked accounts is not a lot of activity.
Attackers could kraakpoging do by login names conforms to and passwords to use that are from leaked databases from other services, suggests Sony. A lot of people use it for various services, the same user names and passwords, so they are susceptible to this kind of kraakpogingen. Sony came the cracking on the track when there are many login sequences behind each other were done.
Customers who have been affected by the kraakpoging may temporarily not be able to login. Credit card details are not at stake, says Sony. They get an e-mail with instructions to their account to activate. The cracking is successful in less than 0.1 percent of the accounts, claims Sony. This spring, it became PlayStation Network hacked. With this hack, a lot more sophisticated than the recent kraakpoging, the account information of tens of millions of PSN users stolen.