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Sony Playstation Network hacked - All your infos are belong to hackers.

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Deozaan:
How are they incompetent with this issue now? Almost all companies use the same email address verification, or a very similar method, for login information....
-Josh (May 18, 2011, 04:41 PM)
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Normally, the reset link is in the e-mail, or you are sent a verification code in the e-mail that you have to type in to change your password. That way only the person who has access to the e-mail account can reset the password.

What Sony did in this case was require you to just type in your e-mail address and birth date to reset your password. Nothing is sent to you to verify you have access to the e-mail account. And guess what? Whoever stole all the PSN data also has everybody's e-mail addresses and birth dates.

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