Monday's downtime any info?Follow

Message off EQ's Facebook site http://www.facebook.com/sonyelectronics#!/EverQuestLive

"We regret that our game servers and websites will not be online tonight (Monday, May 2, 2011.) We apologize for the inconvenience."

Also link to Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/02/sony-says-25-million-accounts-hacked/

Edited, May 2nd 2011 9:00pm by Vinney

My only question at this point: When we find out our info was compromised, who do we see about the class action lawsuit?

Edited, May 3rd 2011 2:09am by Melyodas

hey just a heads up for anyone that was supposed to be billed on 5/2/2011 for your subscription, they were still able to bill you for it. pretty screwed up they cant get their servers secure but they are still willing to charge you for a subscription. it takes real cojones to still charge people for their subscriptions when the servers arent even active. im starting to remember why i left this game before. it may be time to move on again and this time never come back.

Thanks for the heads up. I just nipped that little situation in the bud by cancelling my cc.

Called Sony first to give them an opportunity to stop my billing. They wouldn't, so I called my bank again. My bank said that even they are aware this issue and recommended I change cc numbers, first to stop this billing, and also because our info was possibly comprimised by Sony. My bank said this.

If you are too late for that, you can dispute your charges later.

How does that punish the hackers? Interrupting Sony services and costing them millions of dollars was one of their goals. That's gotta be one of the, er, how do I say this without sounding harsh, ah, I got it. That has got to be one of the least logical conspiracy theories I've ever heard.

Sorry, punishment should have been in quotation marks. I agree, it would be a useless punishment and would only play into Anonymous plans. I used "conspiracy theorist chance" to denote how slim the chance was, not to say there was a conspiracy theory.

The database hacking and stealing of customer information has (almost certainly) nothing to do with Anonymous whatsoever. They take sites offline or vandalize sites or what not, but they've never engaged in something like actually stealing. Shutting down a Scientology site for a few days is one thing. Stealing credit card data is another, and totally out of character for the group. A) It's not related to any of their goals, B) they're smart enough to know whomever did this just brought the Wrath of God down on themselves by stealing that much.

Might as well have robbed a bank.

I'm not saying Anonymous isn't a big part of the reason why the PSN went down (even though they say it wasn't them, and that if any Anonymous members took it down they were acting indepedently), but the whole database hacking bit was likely not them.

You see though, that's the thing. Sony is the one that came out and said cc data was stolen. I have heard of no results of this stolen information, other than "it was stolen". Also, (I have heard, haven't looked into it) Anonymous claimed the attack at first until Sony stated that the cc info was stolen.

And this "crime" holds no bar to threatening the U.S. Military for the "inhumane treatment" of Bradley Manning, the private who leaked info to Wiki Leaks. Bank Robbery does not give the death penalty. Treason does.

i rily do not care who hacked and what thy got if thay got any thang i wana play mt mages

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