Peoww News

Oh dear.  When a hacker exploit becomes the most popular story on the BBC News website, you know it’s bad and this, the latest of Sony’s fuck ups, is as bad as it gets. After goading the hacking community with their claims that the PS3 was unhackable, the PS3 got hacked to fucking bits by angry hacker/rapper(!) GeoHot, leaving it possible for gamers to play pirate copies of games if they ran a bit of code via a USB stick.

Well since then, it’s gone from bad to worse for Sony and their Hindenberg of a console. Last week, they were forced to take the PlayStation Network down, without explanation, for days (six and counting so far) and details are only just emerging that the reason for this is that their users’ details had been compromised. Names, addresses, log-in details and possibly even credit card details may have all fallen into the hands of nefarious hackers.

So if any of our PS3-using chums have ever signed into PSN, they might want to consider changing their passwords for other services such as emails, websites and whatever. Unless you fancy seeing some Russian hacker calling himself Dataspunker or something assimilating their lives.

‘Played Sony. Rich