At the moment I believe the data is ssafe.Despite denials this will turn out to be Anonymous or at least someone working under the umbrella of Anonymous ( be that 'officially or otherwise). The problem now lies with the value of the data and the scruples of the persons holding it.
This was a protest attack on Sony but there now exists an immensely valuable commodity and it may be beyond the ability of those holding it to keep the cat in the bag.
(This was a protest attack on Sony but there now exists an immensely valuable commodity and it may be beyond the ability of those holding it to keep the cat in the bag.
Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:13,
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Sony releases new information, credit card and private information may have been obtained in hack.Anonymous say they didn't do it, they're not the only hacker group on the net.
It wasn't a protest attack it was an LOIC attack to install a modified "Rebug" onto the dev console, they had no other choice than to shut the whole thing down.
(It wasn't a protest attack it was an LOIC attack to install a modified "Rebug" onto the dev console, they had no other choice than to shut the whole thing down.
prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:18,
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To be honest this really doesn't fit with an anonymous attackThis looks to be the work of someone with a bit of talent and not just a group of kids with DDos software
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Paul_P http://www.Paul-hub.com,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:30,
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True about it being a valuable commodity...I had an interesting conversation with Barclays this morning about card safety - the guy I spoke to said that "if the card details had indeed been swiped, that would be 7 million cards (or whatever the number of users it was) which was a huge amount, there was no way they could use all of those cards to make transactions etc, so it would be unlikely you would see any fraudulent activity..."
I couldn't decide whether he was being very naive, or actually had a good point
(Hello Pasa! Long time no see!)
(I couldn't decide whether he was being very naive, or actually had a good point
(Hello Pasa! Long time no see!)
theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:23,
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howdy, Medi! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:30,
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Looks like I picked to right day to visit this place how are you doing?
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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:50,
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If they were sensiblethey'd siphon a quid off each card.
You're hardly going to notice/care about a quid.
£7 mill easy...
(You're hardly going to notice/care about a quid.
£7 mill easy...
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:05,
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anyone would think you work for the government
Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:08,
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I think we'll soon have a script for Office Space 2 with that sort of plan :D theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>,
Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:08,
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