Download History, Trophies, Etc. Not Wiped from Breach
As part of Sony’s ongoing Q&A session on the Playstation Blog, the company assured its millions of still disconnected Playstation Network users their core account data will remain intact with the network resumes operation. That means data like trophies, download history, wallet funds, and cloud saves for Playstation Plus members remain usable and unaffected by last week’s data breach.
The response comes as many PSN owners, already worried their personal information and even credit card data is in the wrong hands, have concern there may not be much of an account to come back to once the PSN returns:
Q: Will our download history/friends list/settings be affected by the PSN downtime?
A: No, they will not.Q: Will trophies that were earned in single-player offline games during the outage be intact when the service resumes?
A: These trophies are intact and will be re-synched when the network is once again operational.Q: Will my PS+ cloud saves be retrievable?
A: Yes, once PSN is restored.
The news is a small silver lining to an increasingly alarming situation for Sony and PSN users. Several reports allege some 2.2 million credit card numbers–allegedly stemming from last week’s breach–have popped up for sale on the virtual black market. There remains question as to how complete that data is, or whether Sony even had security code data for credit card numbers stored on the Network. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, along with many other government forces around the world, are now part of the ongoing investigation.
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Oh thank god, only my credit card information was stolen and not my digital trophies that mean nothing.
Well being as these attackers seem to be based in the U.S. i think maybe this lowers the chance of users from other countries having their identities stolen but then again maybe not. Either way, it’s seems a bit short sighted of Sony to be reassuring users that the trophies they have earned will remain intact when such sensitive information is floating about for any Tom, Dick or Harry with hacking knowledge to get their paws on.
… I thought Trophy data was stored on the PS3 itself >__> And of course hackers have no use for trophy data hahahaha….
Sony does what Nintendon’t: lose your credit card details.
*facepalm* Wow, whether your credit card information was actually stolen or not hasn’t even been CONFIRMED…Sony just says that it’s possible that it happened-not that it DID happen….but I guess that what happens when people just read the headlines and not the whole article and jump to conclusions…
PSN Trophies: More important than credit card information.
@Yeow95
“It’s possible” is enough of an alarm when it comes to credit card info.
@ Yeow95
It was a play on words relating to a very well known catchphrase. In short, a joke, and not to be taken entirely seriously…!