More Internet-based drama today as a hacker group claims to have pillaged thousands of account login details across the PlayStation Network, Windows Live and even 2K Games. The group claims it’s ‘not malicious’.
Apparently this is to serve as ”only a warning” to companies to tighten their security. The same group was also responsible for the DDoS attack on Blizzard this past weekend, hurting Warlords of Draenor’s launch.
Now would be a good time to refresh passwords if you’re signed up to any of them, and even other accounts if you’ve been using the same credentials. Isn’t the present day Internet a fun place to be?
”We have 800,000 from 2K and 500,000 credit card data. In all of our raids we have a total of around 7 million usernames and passwords,” claims the hack group. ”We have around 2 million Comcast accounts, 620,000 Twitter accounts, 1.2 million credentials belonging to the CIA domain, 200,000 Windows Live accounts, 3 million Facebook, 1.7 million EA origins accounts, etc.”
This latest attack on networks is to ‘raise their profile’ among the Internet community. While companies should be held to a near impossible standard for security when it comes to our data, the release of account details is nonetheless damaging to users - hence why I haven’t named them.
