(Posted by: Eric Rees)
Now before you go getting all excited again, PSN didn't necessarily get hacked again. More like someone pointed out to Sony that it could have been.
To reset passwords on this site, all you had to do was go through the painless process of providing your email and your date of birth, pretty weak by any website's standards today. When someone realized that the hackers of PSN definitely have both of those bits of information for thousands of accounts, the site came down. Only time will tell how long it'll be down and how it'll be different when it comes back but let's hope for Sony's sake nothing big happened.
To reset passwords on this site, all you had to do was go through the painless process of providing your email and your date of birth, pretty weak by any website's standards today. When someone realized that the hackers of PSN definitely have both of those bits of information for thousands of accounts, the site came down. Only time will tell how long it'll be down and how it'll be different when it comes back but let's hope for Sony's sake nothing big happened.
