[JonahUK]

"The reliability of our network services and the security of our consumers’ information are of the utmost importance to us"

lol.

[bigo93]

The ICO is a farce!

First of all the maximum fine they can give is £500,000 yet with $ony, and ICO even saying that the PSN breach was the biggest they've had reported, they only give them a £250,000 fine???

Hell remember the other farce with Andrew Crossley and ACS:Law. He would have got a similar fine, but since the ICO has very little powers they didnt even think to have his accounts frozen. This allowed him plenty of time to transfer his money elsewhere and claim he was broke.
Yes this guy got away with only paying £800 cos he was able to hide his money and then claim he was "Poor". Contrary to the email where he was blagging he was making a fortune, owns a mansion and a bentley, and was considering buying a Ferrari. Yet when this investigation came up all of a sudden all his money disappeared down the drain.

Originally Posted by $ony “there is no evidence that encrypted payment card details were accessed,”

Well duh, obviously; it wasnt encrypted in the first place fools!

[DEUS0x82]

It would seem that Europe has not fallen to the same Corporate Darwinism as the USA. Still 250k is a joke so they must not be that far off. If anyone of us had a Company that was trying to save cost even when it came to protecting customers personal information we wouldn't have that Company!

@TheWhiteTyger , let me know when you find this place. xD...

[VIRGIN KLM]

Originally Posted by bigo93 Originally Posted by $ony “there is no evidence that encrypted payment card details were accessed,” Well duh, obviously; it wasnt encrypted in the first place fools!

Exactly! There is evidence, and all that thanks to PS3 scene hackers that pointed out that all data gets saved and sent completely unencrypted and that we should be carefull. Also I love the fact that they have the guts to say that it's safe now when we still have proof that they changed nothing at all in the way personal data gets saved or transfered.

[TonyTonyChopper]

£250,000

bah, what if i share THEIR personal information? i'd love share the lv0 key of 3k models and orbis and being sued for 250.000£

[Kurukurupa]

Don't really see how fining them with more than this would do anyone any good whatsoever

They know they are being watched by watchdogs like this organization, as a business they know that the can't afford such a giant failure again, I'd say that they are pretty much on their toes nowadays. Fining them with an absurdly high fine wouldn't make much sense

Their 'punishment' from this entire situation lies in the loss of face and reputation that they underwent during the time when every website and news channel reported on the breach. Some organization fining them 2 years after the entire thing happened can't be called a punishment.

[JonahUK]

Originally Posted by Kurukurupa Don't really see how fining them with more than this would do anyone any good whatsoever

Of course it would. It would make other companies stand up and take notice.
£250k is a pittance to a huge company like this.

It's like a normal person being fined £1, where is the incentive to make other people not do it?

[brakk3n]

Another example of Sony not wanting to take responsibility for it's action and goes as far to use the fact that other companies get hacked - so why bother them?

I mean it's like this "We own the Rights to your PS3" thing. Yeah, so you own them Sony? Then why do you charge us to send you and fix the frakking thing when it's under warranty and breaks? Wait, you still own the rights after warranty! So you mucks should fix it for life!

Greedy Chinese sweat shop slave labour bastards.

[haz367]

snony already did an appeal to the European Court if i read the paper properly today, in hoger beroep/bezwaar whatever u name it.......guess who they will blame for there own f*ckups.....this is nothing for them anyway but they dont like defeat and well any normal guy would be stuck...but with all the $$ they can do anything like g00gle etc........the rich gets richer and the poor...well keep ripping them off..but that's another fact

[GregoryRasputin]

Originally Posted by haz367 snony already did an appeal to the European Court if i read the paper properly today

That's what the story says on the front page