Article first published as Hackers Again hit Sony PlayStation Network Accounts on Technorati.
Today Sony said that intruders were trying to get access to their user data base again. The
company locked about 93,000 accounts whose ID’s and passwords were
stolen and sent those people an email with password reset directions.
Credit card number are not at risk which was the case back in April.
The company doesn’t know if the hacker was working alone or with
several other parties. Many people criticized Sony that their security
system was to impenetrable and there was a rumor that Sony stored their
user passwords in a simple text file with no encryption at all. Now
Sony says that their servers weren’t intruded at all but that the user
data came from other sources and then was used to log in to Sony’s
service.
Sony's customer service centers claimed that they have not seen a spike in user calls related to the incidents.
Sony has only recently recovered from one of the biggest security
breaches in history back in April when hackers stole the identities and
credit card numbers from more than 100 million of its customers.
Playstation network and other services were taken down for more than a
month. Though the PlayStation Network gained almost all of their members
back in a short period. Hopefully this type of security breach will
never happen again.