According to cyber-security firm Trend Micro’s Kevin Stevens and PSX-Scene.com, the hackers behind the PlayStation Network breach are now flogging off a database of some 2.2 million stolen credit card numbers.
The database apparently includes not only the card face numbers, but also the owner’s first name and surname; address; phone number; email address; email password; date of birth; and credit card number, expiry state and security code.
The alleged inclusion of the card security code and email password, however, suggests this is probably a scam of its own, as neither of these is collected by Sony.
That said, ABC is reporting that an Australian PSN user has recently been a victim of credit card fraud, in an incident which may (or may not) be related.
“I logged into my bank account just to check everything was OK and I found out there was some just over $2,000 in charges which I didn’t personally accrue,” Rory Speckley tells the news channel.
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