How comes the passwords went out? Were they stored in clear? A php beginner wouldn’t do that kind of mistake!

Credit card information stolen? How is that even possible, this information is supposed to be encrypted. I work for a company that accepts online payments, no employee can access the credit card information once it is stored. There are very precise contracts about such security with Visa and Mastercard, and let me know that if Credit Card information leaked from Sony, Visa is going to ask them to pay for that, and explain their security mistakes. If things go really bad, I also think governments might ask Sony to give explanations.

So no, when I give my Credit card information to a respected company, I assume some of my private information might leak in case of a hack such as my address and my birthday, but not my password or my credit card information. The fact that they announced that it might be possible people have had this information really makes me wonder about their security systems, and how they actually handle people’s privacy.

If a hacker could get my credit card info and my password, how can I be sure that a Sony employee didn’t access this information too? This shouldn’t even be a possibility.