14 DAY TRIAL // The Sony maintained PlayStation Network has been yet again hit by a hacker attack which compromised no less than 93,000 accounts, although the company says that no credit card information has been compromised in the new hack attempt.
Speaking to Gamespot John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment, has said, “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.’”
He added, “I’m not going to say it’s impossible. 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.”
Smedley also says that most of the accounts that were targeted were dormant, meaning that they had not been used in some time.
Despite the fact that Sony sees that new hack attack as limited the SOE president still believes that all those who have PlayStation Network accounts should change their log-in information in order to make sure that they are protected.
SOE has not said exactly when the MMO accounts that have been temporary blocked will be activated again.
Sony has been attacked during April of this year by still unknown assailants who have brought the network down and have managed to get access to a number of accounts, exposing personal information and credit card data.
Since then Sony has taken steps to make its networks more secure.
The company has said that the attacks did not discourage gamers from using the PSN, which has since gained 3 million accounts.
Since it was put back online the PSN has also seen an increase in sales.