Apaste on pasting site Pastebinclaimed to leak hundreds of email ids and passwords of PSN users.
There was no entity by the name of 2k studios.
The post was allegedly by hackers who have claimed responsibility for many other attacks in the recent past.
But on digging, researchers found no proof of anything being real.
Therefore, he tried change your password to verify if the accounts existed.
Every single account tested gave him the message Not a valid e-mail address.
As for the 2K accounts?
Some on the list are nonexistent addresses like [email protected].
Other Research
A security researcher named Colin Keighe, also did some digging.
He concludes that this leak is possibly just a collection of previous breaches mashed up into one big database.
The Guardian also talked to a security expert who also believes that this is fake.
We take these reports very seriously and will continue to monitor our internet closely.
The Guardian also talked to a security expert who also believes that this is fake.
Looks like reporters jumped the gun on this one.
But no one can really blame them.
You do what lots of PSN users did when they heard about the hack, changed their passwords immediately!
source: www.techworm.net
