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Sony Computer Entertainment has moved to calm fears that millions of illegally obtained credit card details are being offered back to Sony for a price.
“On Tuesday, April 26 we shared that some information that was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorised intrusion into our network,” explained Patrick Seybold, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media. “Once again, we’d like to apologise to the many users who were inconvenienced and worried about this situation.
“We want to state this again given the increase in speculation about credit card information being used fraudulently. One report indicated that a group tried to sell millions of credit card numbers back to Sony. To my knowledge there is no truth to this report of a list, or that Sony was offered an opportunity to purchase the list.”
In addition, Sony clarified the security measures taken to protect stolen passwords.
“While the passwords that were stored were not ‘encrypted,’ they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function,” said Seybold. “There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link.”
Sony continues to “work with law enforcement and forensic experts to identify the criminals behind the attack”.
Last week the platform holder said it hopes to have some PSN services restored today.
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