Sony: Network attack unrelated to April hack

Posted October 13, 2011 by Mark Ankucic in Gamer Culture, Industry News, News.

The recent attack on Sony has revived many memories of the attack on the PSN back in April, but Sony are confident that the two are not linked.

Reitinger’s statement following the attack assures Sony customers that only a small portion of users have been affected, and that those users will be properly notified and instructed in due course. Reitinger’s statement did not, however, cover whether the attack was linked to the PSN hack in April. John Smedley, Sony Online Entertainment president, has come forth to say that the two incidents are not very likely to be related.

“We’ve said publicly when we were compromised before that the information is out there and could have been used. That was obviously the first thing we looked at. Then we did the mathematical analysis and said, ‘Obviously that’s not what happened…I’m not going to say it’s impossible [the info came from Sony]. We just think that’s not the most likely case…It’s just simple math. There was such a small percentage of successes. They were attacking with a large number. Because of that, the math tells us it wasn’t [Sony's information],”

What that exact number was we are still not certain – however, this does not explain even the smallest of successes. PSN users and SOE users were required to change their passwords upon re-entering their respective services – so where did this information come from?

BeefJack reminds all online consumers to be cautious – there are bad people out there.

Thanks to VG247.

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