The attackers are too busy selling credit card numbers and personal info to care what people think. Even if they just got $1 for every account with a credit card they are rich. I'm sure they just used a botnet to cover their tracks and Sony is exaggerating things to not look negligent. This is just my speculation. Either-way there was a large motivation to break in since that info was worth millions they took.

Even ignoring the credit card info (which was apparently limited to a small old non-US database) the names, addresses, and email addresses for all those people are worth a lot. They can sell that info to anyone who wants to do some spear-phishing (I've already seen such attempts in my spam) to try to get your password or install some malware that can get your credit card #s.

A database of millions of real names and addresses is a huge haul for spammers/phishers and whoever pulled off the hack.

anyone care to start a pool as to which country this came from?

Ill put my money on china. They got their Hua Mein panda's in the servers they did!!

Money for nothin'
 

I want my.........I want my EQ2................

SOE, please throw an update out there for us. Even if it's just a guess. Anything, a cookie to hold us over. Puhleeaase. No updates since 5/4/11.

Their site was updated today with more... I mean the same... info.

You should check their Facebook page, or twitter?, since they update daily.

Sounds like things could come back online in a few days...

http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/recentupdates.vm

So far so good on the compensation for the downtime.

Not much SOE can do about it yet but was talking with my guild and one of our leaders brought up the fact because we weren't raiding we have missed out on nearly 80 new item upgrades for our members. We had just started really biting into the raid zones in Velious.

well, i got tired of waiting. i was able to control the urge to run back to WoW. I instead reinstalled Warhammer Online. fun so far and I can already tell a lot of good changes have been made. I just wish the modding community had lived.. nothing new over at War.mmoui since '09 :(

One thing I am wondering about.

Many guilds need status points to pay their rent, as do players with bigger houses etc. Many folks did questing / crafting / raids to get these points. Contrary to belief, NO not every guild has 50 million status in it's bank / escrow. Is the clock 'running' still on rent? Are folks going to get into game and find out that they are essentially two weeks behind of rent? or two weeks wasted if they had escrow? Hopefully if sony is going to do a 'double' thing to make up for it, they also do double status points to help folks recoup the lost status on rents or they throw some into escrow accounts or something. Maybe a token good for a weeks free rent or two? Just some ideas.

I also see they are going to do a loot bonanza, I sure hope they don't flood the place with fabled's and high value items, and kill it's worth for everyone.

the greedy one.

Now it would be totally cool if SOE offered double XP for as long as the game has been down. Well, maybe that is being a bit greedy, but I hope it is for longer than a day or two.

Good point on the guild/house status points. That could be a real ouch.

Servers up in case you didn't already know!

Aarghhh
 

Well it seems the game is almost back up. I am being told I need to reset my password yet every time I try get an error on sony's side so still can't get in.

This is torture I say, torture!!!

Your doing it through their web site I hope. The account section? If not you prob got hit with the 24 hr lock out.

WOW! I made it thru the password reset and it looks like the the game will load. Haven't actually loaded a toon yet. Hope I don't OD after having been without EQ2 for so long.