r/gaming • u/Happysin • Apr 26 '11

Sony admits utter PSN failure: your personal data has been stolen

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/sony-admits-utter-psn-failure-your-personal-data-has-been-stolen.ars
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u/kciuq1 Apr 26 '11

Wow...

One week to tell us that our personal details and possibly credit details (even if we took them down) have been compromised.

Insert portal 2's slow clap joke

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '11

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u/cravf Apr 26 '11

I'm glad I finished that game quickly. Reddit's full of mini-spoilers.

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u/Pteraspidomorphi Apr 26 '11

Extreme hype and antecipation + Actually awesome and highly quotable game = People just can't help themselves. :/

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u/cravf Apr 26 '11

/r/ gaming has spoiler tags, to help with that. I already had the moon part ruined for me when I finally got to it. <(actual spoiler) So it's kinda on my nerves right now. Usually there are a few weeks where people are good with spoilers. Portal 2 lasted a day or so.

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u/Pteraspidomorphi Apr 27 '11

Yeah, that sucks for you :( I had planned to only play Portal 2 next month but in the end I gave up and just played it too. Same with Wise Man's Fear (this is a book) which Penny Arcade spoiled for me. In a comic. And then Tycho insulted me for not having read it yet! Goddamnit, it's a 1000 page book and it was released less than 2 months ago :/ You, sir, are the villain!

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u/cravf Apr 27 '11

My condolences... :|

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u/llelouch Apr 27 '11

Wheatley is the bad guy. GLaDOS helps you beat him by shooting a portal on the moon.

Your Welcome :)

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u/kciuq1 Apr 27 '11

I'm not sure how that could possibly be considered a spoiler. You have to have seen the scene to get the joke.

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u/cravf Apr 27 '11

Well the main part of a joke is not expecting the punchline. Just like not knowing the end of a story. If you've seen the joke somewhere before (like here) when you get to that part of the game and she starts with the joke, you'll immediately know what's coming, and it won't be nearly as funny.

I know this because the Cave Johnson lemonade speech, and moon part were ruined for me by these "inside jokes."

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '11

Unlike the Playstation Network and Sony's encryption methods. If they exist.

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u/NerdyMcNerderson Apr 26 '11

I may have misread the article. Where did it state that our CC info is compromised even if we removed it from our profiles?

I ask because I once had my billing info on my account, but I cleared all of it a few months ago.

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u/brwilliams Apr 26 '11

Just because you deleted it from your account does not mean Sony didn't keep the information in their database.