more and more hacks every day...
I think ill say that anon inspired some people.

yeah, i've stuck to only paypal sites since this all took off

(still no proof it was anon though)

What is wrong with people these days? Do they say to themselves, "I'm awesome with computers so I think I'll use my skills to perform criminal acts?"
It seems like every day there news of yet more and more hacks like this going on.
Just to put it into perspective, if someone mugs someone on the street, they're stealing and hurt one person. These bone heads doing these hacks are stealing but instead of hurting one person, they're hurting 24 million people in this case. I wonder if they think about that...or even care.

These sorts of attacks are so sophisticated they likely have government backing from "someplace". These are not your young college student 'hacking' into your systems to show-off anymore, its not even criminal activity, which tends to not be very organized anyway. Oh why bother. Enjoy your opinions

Guest, you'd be surprised how easy some of this stuff is. I mean. PSN got shut down by a DDoS, one of the most common hacks.

Well, one of my friend informed me that he just got an email and the actual text reads ?cryptographically scrambled password?. That definitely sounds like hashed passwords to me, but one can only hope they were salted.

What is up with all the hackers lately.

Wait... They changed it so the user had to change their password for security; yet the hackers have all the other info.

My thoughts; Hacker logs in, says "you must change your password, please provide X and the email address" Done. Hacker now owns the account.

Durrr.

for a second i thought it was pinzoo the oddly named site i used to get cell phone minutes from, I shake my fist at these hackers

PSN being shut down by DDoS and the hack that resulted in the data theft were isolated, close-in-time, incidents performed by separate entities, one being Anonymous (the DDoS) and the other is still unknown as far as I've been updated.

I don't know if you actually did know the difference, as you didn't specifically mention the data theft hacking, but I just wanted to clarify for people who might not have known.

Anyways, these days I wouldn't use a "X company was hacked" as a basis for not using them any more. It's all in the way they handle the situation and the preventative defences (real-time intrusion monitoring?) that they have in place that ultimately decides that, to me.