Personal Information Compromised In PlayStation Network Intrusion

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Well folks, the bomb has officially dropped: just a little while ago, Sony revealed that some PSN users’ personal information has been compromised in this whole fiasco with PSN going down because of outside attacks. This means that if you’re the type of person who likes to reuse passwords and you have the misfortune of being one of the 75 million PSN users, you should probably stop reading this and go change all of your passwords right now.

Some PSN users have already received an email explaining what has happened, but in case you haven’t yet, here’s what’s been compromised: Sony says that they believe “name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID,” have all been compromised, and seems likely that you can add “profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers,” to that list as well.

Sony also says that it’s probably best you err on the side of caution and assume that your credit card’s number and expiration date have been stolen as well, even though there isn’t any evidence of such theft at this time. Sony recommends that those who had a credit card tied to their account head over to annualcreditreport.com to view their free annual credit reports from the three major bureaus, though it may be more immediately beneficial to call up the bank that issued you your card and tell them that your account may have been compromised.

While PSN going down may have caused minor headaches in that players couldn’t get online to play, it now seems like things have become a whole lot more serious. That’s the only update Sony has given at the moment, but once more information becomes available, we’ll let you know.