As many current owners of current generation consoles may know, but 77 million Playstation Network accounts were hacked last week, resulting in the server being shut down still (over a week now). Passwords, email-addresses, phone numbers, and apparently even credit cards are compromised, resulting in one of the worst data loss situations in history. Many have swayed their eyes to Sony, and their apparent lack of defense and encryption for keeping the database of account in a elementary level text file.
This bring out the question of account protection on videogaming (and of course the internet as well). Hopefully many other gaming servers take note of what has been going on with PSN, and strive to improve their protection, and overall online quality.
I am one of the people who uses Playstation network. I had no idea of the hacking until I saw someones facebook status about it the other day. I have a feeling alot of people are going to lose thier credit card information and passwords because of it. The smart thing to dso would be to clear your name out of the network until a new one is up. I luckly never had my credit card information up there.
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