The real question is, how trusting are you of any service, store, etc that has your credit card info in wake of a top-tier company’s inability to keep things safe? I heard a statistic (which means it could be better or worse) that only a third of corporate cyber attacks are even exposed to the public. Are you being more careful these days, or is this a fact of life you’ve accepted that we have to live with?
Service for Sony’s PlayStation Network is finally being restored in the US and across the globe after a long outage, but the company’s home country of Japan still hasn’t approved restart of the service, according to a report by the Dow Jones Newswires.
Sony won’t be allowed to restore PSN in Japan until it proves that it has followed through with preventative measures for future hacking attacks, and it has taken further measures to protect consumer credit card and personal information, Japanese official Kazushige Nobutani told Dow Jones.
It’s not surprising that Japan is being more strict with Sony than other countries — the company’s PSN outage isn’t just a stain on its reputation, it also makes Japan look bad as well.
Why not? Sony has always been honest with it’s customers and treated them with courteous respect. Just read the ToS.
Har…TRUST? Har!
I asked the to buy an XBOX for the convent.
No doubt about it – a fool and the security of their computer network are soon parted
I don’t trust any company with my credit card information. I use the single use number I get from my bank. Not as convenient, but safer for online purchases. As for Sony, I’m glad they are back online. I’d rather have free Sony, than paid Xbox live.
Put your Data on ANY “CLOUD” SERVICE AND THEN GRAB YOUR ANKLES !!!
Do I trust them? About as much as I trust Mircosoft, or Amazon. Its kind of like the Jack in the Box hepatitis thing years back. After it came out, Jack in the Box was probably the safest place to eat at since they got so reamed for it. That last thing they wanted was to get reamed again.
BigBoy, re: “I’m glad they are back online. I’d rather have free Sony, than paid Xbox live”
You get what you paid for.
Trust them? This is the same company that put rootkits on music CDs and took away a major feature of the playstation 3 (other os) that super computer users counted on.
not quite yet per Japan
http://foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/05/15/japan-restart-sony-online-games-services-approved/
Speedbump
You had to get a link from Fox to see what was in the first paragraph of the story here.
“…but the company’s home country of Japan still hasn’t approved restart of the service, according to a report by the Dow Jones Newswires.”
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You want to know why Apple didn’t buy it?
Skeptic, no you don’t, you’re paying for content others get for free. ie Netflix
After this debacle it’s most likely the safest place to give your credit card to.
Get yourself a credit card that offers “one time numbers” that you can use in place of the real credit card number, and use that system every time possible. That way, if your CC number is compromised, it doesn’t matter because it is already expired.
Suppose you want to buy a widget or subscription online for $100.
Basically what happens is that you connect via your computer to your Credit Card company account, and ask for a one-time-number. You tell it what the limit for the charge is ($120 to allow a little breathing room), and the CC company gives you a new credit card number that can be used only once and for only the maximum that you authorize. When the charge is completed, the CC company invalidates the temporary number and transfers the charge to your real CC number.
Now if somebody hacks the vendor’s system, all they get is a useless CC number that is already void.
This works great also if you have a recurring charge (once a year) and you want to authorize it every time. Since your CC number is expired, they will contact you to renew your contract, at which time you can make a choice instead of just getting charged for years for something you may not even be using and may not remember.
It is a free service, and most larger CC systems offer the option.
I heard that’s how they really got Bin Laden- they hacked his PlayStation account.
I trust them as much as Congress.
BigBoyBC – “Skeptic, no you don’t, you’re paying for content others get for free. ie Netflix”
Ummm, last I checked, Netflix streaming isn’t “free” on ANY platform.
Not only that, if you don’t want to pay for Xbox live to get netflix streaming on your xbox, there’s TONS of other ‘free’ outlets to do so (set top boxes, wii, blu-ray players with netflix built in, etc).
Nice try, no cigar.
I’ll wage that Sony’s credit rating didn’t suffer a jot, for having lost everyone else’s credit card info. Shouldn’t Sony be penalized is some substantial way, other than their stock perhaps dropping a few points. The mainstream news of all this was far too kind to them about it. It should rate up there with the Bernie Madoff scandal. But it didn’t. So it’s just a “Oops, Sorry” from Sony. And back to business as usual.
Meanwhile, I’ll wager I’ve got a lousy credit rating for not having had any major credit cards in my name, in decades, for some jerks like Sony to lose the particulars of. Why am I the credit risk, for being cautious and frugal? And Sony isn’t, for being a bunch of financially cavalier jerks?! I guess Sony is “too big” to be penalized. Since when did ALL the laws become conditional to one’s net worth?
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