Report: Password Exploit Leaves PlayStation Network Accounts At Risk Again

A new take advantage of might have authorised hackers to change account passwords on Sony's not long ago easy PlayStation Network, according to a inform published Tuesday night.

The gaming website Nyleveia.com initial detected that hackers could change any account's cue on PlayStation.com by entering a user's e-mail residence and bieing born date.

"Despite the methods now in use to force a cue change when you initial reconnect to the PlayStation network, your accounts still sojourn unsafe," Nyleveia.com wrote. "A new penetrate is now carrying out the rounds in dim corners of the internet that allows the assailant the skill to change your cue using usually your account's e-mail and date of birth. It has been proven to me by send protest on a assessment account, so we am without any shade of a skepticism that this is real."

Since user e-mail addresses and bieing born dates were amid the information compromised during the initial assault on Sony's servers in April , this would put the most of the 70 million or so PlayStation Network accounts at risk.

Any PlayStation Network user affected by this take advantage of would most expected receive an e-mail indicating that their cue has been changed.

A judge on Sony Europe's summary house mentioned Wednesday that logins would be infirm for PlayStation.com , the PlayStation forums and all of the company's particular diversion websites. Though players can still record in to the PlayStation Network, they cannot change their passwords on any of Sony's websites.

Sony Europe mentioned that the downtime is due to "essential maintenance" and that it is misleading how long it will take before its websites are restored. A continuance observe on the PlayStation blog Wednesday said: "We're creation a couple of rapid changes and the site will be back online in just a couple of moments."

Sony did not right away reply to Wired.com's solicit for information on the situation.

Last Saturday, Sony began restoring its PlayStation Network services, that had been down for more than 3 weeks subsequent to a leading safety crack that potentially compromised millions of customers' personal data.