A timeline of Sony data breaches

[Cato Censorius]

"It's not that big of a deal! Just make an account! It doesn't cost you anything!"

Except the inevitable theft of my data.

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In early October 2023, Sony notified 6,791 current and former employees that their data had been compromised by a data breach earlier in the year.

On September 25 2023, the hacker group RansomedVC claimed to have stolen 260 GB of proprietary data from Sony — by the hackers’ description, “all of sony systems.” They posted 6,000 files as a sample of the stolen data, including a PowerPoint presentation and source code files.

In August 2017, a group named “OurMine” gained access to Sony PlayStation social media accounts and began posting claims that it accessed the PlayStation Network database and collected registration information, including usernames, names, and emails.

In late November 2014, a hacker group with ties to North Korea calling themselves the “Guardians of Peace” stole mountains of data from the Sony Pictures network. Within the treasure trove of information were plans and scripts for unreleased films, personal data on employees and families, internal emails, salary information, and a ton of other information relating to Sony properties and personnel.

Hackers attacked several Sony Pictures-associated websites in June 2011, compromising over one million user accounts by capturing usernames and passwords.

In May 2011, Sony announced that personal details from 25 million Sony Online Entertainment customer accounts were stolen. Along with names, addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers, hackers also gathered information about PC games customers purchased through the system.

In mid-April 2011, Sony’s PlayStation Network was hacked, and personal information on 77 million account holders – essentially every user – was stolen. The incident also led to a several-week service outage, preventing users from being able to access the PlayStation network.

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Forgive my less than stellar enthusiasm to needlessly give Sony access to my Steam player info and credit card info.

[Trakais]

When I have to choose between my Steam account security and some ♥♥♥♥♥ console network which has been breached multiple times, the choice is easy.
Not to mention PSN can remove content you have purchased from your account. At least on Steam you can still own it even if store page gets de-listed.

[I / Me / Meowself]

Anyone who is making this situation out to not be a big deal feels like mostly trolls or people who aren't educated on the topic, thank you for posting this.

[ooze]

gods work posting this, thank you for doing your part brother

[Asheera]

You forgot the two within the past four months here recently!

[Blagden le Corbeau]

Based

[Shad0w]

The funny part is that I was trying to find the total number of data breeches. and google redirected me here to hell divers 2 discussion thread..... lol

[FrogMan1280]

Review bomb the game it gives arrow head a better argument to say ♥♥♥♥ you to sony

[orion™]

since u want to look smart for everyone on the internet, at least paraphrase it or dont use the first result on google lmao
https://firewalltimes.com/sony-data-breach-timeline/

[ShiftySquirrel]

the 2014 breach was almost a petabyte of data stolen

[Pixx]

The last one was in December of 2023. Also let's not forget this game has kernel level anti-cheat. I'd rather lose my access to the game than to hand my data over to sony.

[Zylon]

Exactly.. thank you for posting.

[BitsOfSkin]

You forgot the 2005 Sony Rootkit incident...

[Bad Behavior Defender]

I'm not a console war fanboy, but how is sony still in business.

[Gamer_299]

Microsoft has had 12 data breaches since Aug 2017. Sony has had 3. Why is everyone going after sony when microsoft does the same thing and has more data breaches than sony?

https://firewalltimes.com/microsoft-data-breach-timeline/

[Zylon]

Originally posted by BitsOfSkin:

You forgot the 2005 Sony Rootkit incident...

Oh I remember. A rootkit on a music CD.