To the Sony fans from Colin Jacobs

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Colin Jacobs, chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), said the incident highlighted the need for legislation making it mandatory for companies to publicly announce a security breach as soon as happens.

“At the moment, companies can wait two days, five days, or more than a week, to let people know,” he said.

“We need to have an Australian law in place so that if a company knows that private information has been breached, they have to let the public know straight away.”

PlayStation users in Australia are being urged to change their passwords, usernames and pins, and monitor their credit usage.

“In this particular instance, the risk appears to be one of possible phishing targeting later on and that is unsolicited contact by email or telephone,” said NSW Police Force Fraud Squad Commander Detective Superintendent Col Dyson.

“Certainly, people should be changing … regularly not just their passwords but their usernames as well.”

PlayStation user Brendan Hill, 31, said the breach means he won’t buy any products online from Sony again.

“We just won’t ever purchase anything from them again,” he said, adding he was frustrated by the lack of communication from Sony.

“It (the PlayStation) basically kept saying there was a connection error our end… I know a bunch of people who spent three hours on their network trying to fix it.

“They should have put a statement up straight away saying that the network was down.”

Gamer Joel Connelly, from Sydney, said he was disappointed by Sony’s approach.

“They have almost let people believe that it was a harmless problem, when in actual fact they just weren’t telling us that someone might have our information,” the 29-year-old said.

“I was going to spend my Easter playing Call of Duty: Black Ops with my friends … but instead we actually hung out and got a drink.

“In a way, the hackers have liberated me from the tyranny of the PlayStation Network.”

Sony, in a statement released on the PlayStation blog, defended the time it took to respond to the security breach.

“It was necessary to conduct several days of forensic analysis, and it took our experts until yesterday to understand the scope of the breach,” said Patrick Seybold, Sony’s Senior Director of Corporate Communications and Social Media.

Sony warned customers to be “especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information”.

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Hello, friends.

Hmm... It is a rather important topic, I s'pose because Sony screwed up, and potentially, people could have some personal id issues...

Whoa bro, better slow down bro, don't wanna be a bro, bro.

sony screwed it up.

And they made ppl believe it was a harmless problem at the start, i don't have, and i will surely not buy anything from sony. Ever

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Sony screwed up... yeah, they did.
Should they have told people about it? Hell yeah they should have.
But they didn't.
It frustrates me to that no one was told of what happened until days later.
And i'm rather upset that such a big company can get breached so easily.
Thats the biggest shocker

Where there is light, there is always darkness.

THIS is the reason I'm a Xbox 360 fanboy.

Communism: You have more water, everyone has more water!

“I was going to spend my Easter playing Call of Duty: Black Ops with my friends … but instead we actually hung out and got a drink.

I have to say, who the hell plays CoD? It's crap. This line settles that this guy has no life.

Hello, friends.

So I take it that Psn Isi still down?

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@Spy: If he "has no life" for playing CoD[which I agree is crap], then you have no life for reporting something regarding Sony. I don't mean to troll or get off-topic, but people need to quit saying that someone has no life, because they did something else from their's.

Whoa bro, better slow down bro, don't wanna be a bro, bro.

Gewd, PS3 Users are gunna dai :3

this still pisses me of

Where there is light, there is always darkness.

This is why I'm a Ninty kid. No mass networks, no mass hacks!

Whoa bro, better slow down bro, don't wanna be a bro, bro.

We just have our internet browsers and points cards. eFTe

Goodbye my only friend. Oh, did you think I meant you?

@Panzer: SIMPLICITY FTW. The upside to not having a major network! But, if I'm reading about the 3DS correctly... The eShop and mailing network, mostly the eShop, contain credit card numbers, since they eliminated the need for points cards with the 3DS...

Whoa bro, better slow down bro, don't wanna be a bro, bro.

NUUUU! We're doomed.

Goodbye my only friend. Oh, did you think I meant you?

I know! But, I have no 3DS. I'm un-doomed!

Whoa bro, better slow down bro, don't wanna be a bro, bro.

I gotta admit, the PlayStation one was pretty good. But, that's because it was my first System ever...

Whoa bro, better slow down bro, don't wanna be a bro, bro.

I remember my PS1. I like Xbox better though.

Communism: You have more water, everyone has more water!

@Teh: True, I prefer 360 over PS3... Halo is more appealing.

@Craig: It's a pretty good system, it really screwed the N64. dX

Whoa bro, better slow down bro, don't wanna be a bro, bro.

Yeah, same here...

Crap when I get a 3DS im also getting a job I NEED POINTS CARDS!! ITS OVER!!

Lifes like a game there are those who are good at it and those who need practice.