Sony’s Latest PlayStation Network Update More Candid

You're involved in what may be the largest data breach in history, your customers are livid, your network's been down for over a week, and the media's piling happening like a mob of en garde tackles. What cause you behave?

Answer more questions, that's what. Sony representative Patrick Seybold did inalterable night in a newborn Q&A series on the official PlayStation blog, and piece much of it's still basically "no comment" paraphrased, he managed to slip in few newsworthy bits.

Like: The different ways PSN and Qriocity stored your sensitive defrayment and biographical personal data–Sony encrypted the former, but non the latter.

"The integral mention card remit was encrypted and we take over no more evidence that credit card information was expropriated," writes Seybold in the update. "The individualised information table, which is a isolable information set, was not encrypted, just was, course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack."

What's more, Sony says your reference card's security system encode (the duplicate three or four digit validation number) couldn't be compromised because the company ne'er asked for it (though data processor police force skilled Microphone Godwin calls that "the weakest defense ever").

Still wait for electronic mail apprisal from Sony? Seybold says "all certified accounts" should receive something away today, and that the process of cycling through all 77 million accounts "has been underway since yesterday."

And if you'atomic number 75 wondering why the service reconstruct's taking so tall, Seybold says "we are initiating some measures that will significantly enhance all aspects of PlayStation Network's security system and your personal information, including moving our network infrastructure and information center to a new, more secure location, which is already current." He adds that Sony plans to say more or so those measures shortly.

In the meantime, both PSN and Qriocity services remain down, though Seybold says they're expected back, at any rate in part, "within a week from yesterday."

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