Despite Sony's claims

The question of whether or not PlayStation Network users' credit card information had to all intents and purposes been compromised was on the whole unanswered Friday, closing in on two weeks afterwards the breach had occurred. On the one hand, Sony was telling clients it had "no evidence" of the data being taken, nevertheless press reports suggest if not.

"During all credit card information stored in our systems is encrypted and there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the opportunity," Patrick Seybold, Sony's senior director of Corporate Communications & Social Media said in a post to the company's official blog Wednesday.

"If you go to work leaving your house unlocked, is it the criminals fault if you someone walks in through your front door and steals your TV?"As long as your are going to use that analogy, I'll bite. Let's say you leave your house, lock all the doors, windows and put your money in your safe. You even turn on the alarm. You come home later that day and find the locks have been broken, alarm disabled and the safe was cracked and your money is gone.Fact is their security was hacked, so it could have been better and maybe they needed better procedures for testing..etc. However it doesn't mean it wasn't strong, just had a flaw that someone was able to make use of. For all we know the hacker(s) have been working at this for many months or even years.

The topics of security

your obvious ignorance on the topics of security and encryption has rendered your coment trashy. Sony's network was compromised by ano prior to this attack. Sony made no attempt to upgrade security. Now that hackers with ill intent have hacked them they r finaly revamping their entire system. If u have to complete rewrite your security programs and firewalls at the time they werent up to standard in the first place. We wont even go into the fact they had to bring in another company to help them.

Even with the loss of data, that does not justify spending that much money to switch to a newer system...Yes, I am upset with sony for the breach, and for taking so long to come clean about it, nevertheless I am not going to ditch an investment of money in the system, games, and time because of this. I will remove most of my data from their network, yet I will continue to use what I have invested in in doing so far.Opportunely, I do own both systems, and I do feel that the ps3 offers more in terms of value when compared to the 360.

Group of dedicated fanboys like the PS3 group

I’ve never seen a group of dedicated fanboys like the PS3 group. They are like Sony’s very own PR machine living in delusion. Sony is completely to blame for the whole entire problem. We can look back to the start and see that’s where the problems started. Sony was obsessed with pushing Blu Ray into the PS3. Which did very little to improve games, PS3 graphics only marginally beat out 360, after all no match for PC. As a result they didn’t pay attention to the online service. That’s why user trophies had to be retro fitted. They looked and saw online gaming was big and realized they were way behind XBL, and they couldn’t setup dedicated servers to handle everyone over night. So they went with the client server method. They figured the PS3 was unhackable so they didn’t build in more security. When GeoHotz broke the PS3 certificate key, he didn’t even realize it was the key to the whole PS3 network, he just even though he jail broke his console.

Sony says there was no evidence that hackers have obtained PlayStation Network user's credit card info. Nevertheless, new reports indicate that they have it, and are selling it to the highest bidder.

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