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[ggrobot]

Epic Games, the creators of Gears of War and Unreal
Tournament, have revealed that their websites and forums were hacked,
and that users emails from their forums have been leaked onto the web
(or rather, exposed to the hackers, which usually means they’ve been
leaked). Epic says that password were leaked as well,

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[Koogle]

It seems getting hacked in thing these days. So I was also hacked, now can I get a piece of this pie..

[Tom]

Sony to me was a smart and well orchestrated attack and Sony deserves it as from my view. I feel zero remorse for Sony. I have no intention to buy anything Sony because I think as far as companies go, Sony is a real POS. Raping the PS3 on people and then throwing Digital rights shit into it just totally turned me off. But to attack a game company and not someone like EA itself or Activision is pretty lame. I have nothing against Epic they've never done anything but release decent quality games. They also have one of the best engines on the market. I think these were little kiddie hackers. Nobody like EA, EA is shit and Activision is a close second. Why not attack them? Who cares when I read this really, hope Epic gets things sorted out.

[Sabot]

[Baconnaise]

I agree the data stolen is ours not Sony's. It's painful to redo anything these days just because you had your wallet stolen let alone all your personal information.

Stumpus I think Tom was saying that Sony is to blame for allowing it to happen in the first place. I personally think Sony is at fault and should be sued (only way they will learn is to lose money). This is a prime example here of when a certain regulation or law should be passed to require large companies to meet certain standards and have no scapegoat for something like this.

[Tom]

Baconnaise knows what I am saying, thanks for saving me the time of replying.

[Sabot]

Baconnaise, i know what is intended but i can hardly sympathise with hackers for 'stealing' private details off of ordinary members of the public -regardless of how secure or insecure a company is.
What -if they were really inteligent or clever- should have done, was steal or hack into Sony's hidden employees, accounts/CEO details etc. and THEN turned the company in on itself. Employees then would renegade as that IS personal and down to the company to protect that data.
Stealing ordinary peoples bank details, personal information; DOB, passwords is just plain immature and above all, it's the ordinary person in the street that has to sort it out -not Sony or ANY company for that matter....

By the way, Sony has provided a years free identity theft cover for members anyway. That's impressive enough, which is more than your bank in the street would do.

[amra]

Hm, what if... within the 77million are also very interesting data about sony employees that by themselves have PS3s, or other people of interest... perhaps scumtology pate Tom Cruise is playing PS3 too? What if the criminals had visited some economy-courses and watched to much the world, where "more is better" is a dominantly kind of thinking.
And if you have all data you can search for specific persons, instead of taking the long route and searching within the network by loosing time when you currently do a security breach.
Not a wise choice for an intelligent hacker. So stealing all data seems quite optimized in the big scheme.

Dunno are there some facts about big creditcard or ATM stealings with faked information? Or some 100.000 victims?

Wouldn't be in such flame like you stumpus, you have been hitten by the stealings? You know somebody?
Of course you are right in some points, but not at all I guess.