Sony's woes are getting deeper and deeper as its PSN network fiasco is showing no signs of abating. The tech giant is already in the
danger of getting sued by its angry users while various governments have started investigation about the incident. Now, the hackers have come up with a new cause for the company to worry about. According to the New York Times, some hackers are claiming to have got hold of the credit card numbers of PSN users.
Apparently, the hackers are planning to sell the credit information, to whosoever may be interested in that. In fact, they are even ready to sell it back to Sony, but for the right price only. Currently, the quotation is hovering around $100,000, which in our opinion is not a big price keeping in view that industry experts are claiming that this security breach may cost Sony more than 1 billion.
On its part, Sony has claimed that it had all the credit card numbers and other details securely encrypted and therefore there is no cause of worry. However, it has asked the members to remain vigilant. The company also said that there is no conclusive proof that the data has been stolen at all. At the very same time, it also accepted that such possibility cannot be ruled out. Detractors are also claiming that the hackers were able to breach through all the layers to reach main database, enabling them to retrieve all the information.
Industry experts are asserting that the hackers seem to have details about the servers used by Sony and apparently they accessed the database by permeating through the servers. It is ironical that all these times while Sony was busy picking fights with GeoHot, somebody else was busy making more sinisterly plans of which Sony had no inkling. There were some rumors implicating famed hacker GeoHot, but he has categorically denied his involvement in this breach attack. In his own words, "Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone else’s server and stealing databases of user info is not cool."