Sony Faces Serve Safety Woes

A website set up by Sony to enable users to reset their passwords subsequent to final month's penetrate assault is itself theme to a safety alert.

A Sony user detected an take advantage of on the site that could have been used by hackers to burlesque users.

Password resets have been vital subsequent to the bearing of 77 million Sony PlayStation users' personal details.

Sony certified the sites were uncertain but mentioned no penetrate had occurred.

In its blog it mentioned : "We at the moment took down the PSN cue reset page. Contrary to a few reports, there was no penetrate involved. In the routine of resetting of passwords there was a URL take advantage of that you have subsequently fixed," Sony mentioned in a statement.

It will be serve annoyance is to gaming hulk and more nuisance for its users.

"Anyone who has already reset their cue is still able to earn access to the PSN but for those who haven't they wouldnt be able to reset it until the servers go live again, that will be shortly," mentioned a Sony spokesman.

Wesley Yin-Poole, headlines editor of gaming website Eurogamer explained what had happened.

"There was an take advantage of that authorised any person to reset your cue using only your e-mail residence and date of birth, effectively locking them out of their own PlayStation account," he said.

E-mail addresses and dates of bieing born are a few of the personal sum think to have been stolen by hackers final month.

"This is only other annoyance prohibited on the heels of the penetrate attack. It is nowhere nearby as major but will be other stomach-ache for Sony," he added.

The most of PlayStation users are able to reset their cue by their consoles rsther than than by going online.

On 20 April the Japanese wiring hulk was forced to close down its PlayStation network, after what has been described as the greatest penetrate assault in history.

Yesterday, Sony team leader Howard Stringer mentioned the definite did deed rapidly sufficient to discuss it users about the problems.

Sony has offering users a year's giveaway identity insurance and giveaway games to be able to convince them back to the network.