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Inishowen gamers fear identity
fraud
09.05.11
by Rebecca Rathbone and Caoimhinn Barr
INISHOWEN gamers were left twiddling their thumbs
for a third straight week as the Sony PlayStation
Network remained offline following an attack by
hackers.
Sony has revealed that a further 25 million users
worldwide may have had their credit card details
stolen. That announcement comes after last week’s
revelation that 77 milllion gamers were compromised
following data theft.
Sony confirmed that names, addresses, emails,
birthdates, phone numbers and other information from
millions of games accounts may have been stolen from
its servers. |
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Inishowen gamers Peter Deeney and Ben
Barber. |
PlayStation Network
user Peter Deeney from Buncrana, is one of many
concerned locals affected by the recent Sony
security breach.
"I think it isn't right that they now have all of my
personal details, and I fear what the people behind
this could do with my card details after this all
dies down. For this reason I will have to change a
lot of my passwords and account information,” he
said.
Another Inishowen gamer, Ben Barber, who often
clashes with friend Peter during online ‘Call of
Duty’ sessions, was remaining upbeat earlier this
week.
"Even though the network was down over the Easter
holidays I haven't missed it as much as I might have
because of the great weather!” he added.
Thousands of gamers in the North West are keeping
their fingers crossed that the PlayStation Network
will be operational soon after the longest break to
the service in more than four years.
Sony denied on its official PlayStation blog that
hackers had tried to sell it a list of millions of
credit card numbers.
Executives of the Japanese company apologised and
said that it would gradually restart the PlayStation
Network with increased security and would offer some
free content to users. |
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