{"id":11464,"date":"2011-04-26T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-credit-card-scam-forced-psn-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11464-rumour-control-credit-card-scam-forced-psn-shutdown","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Credit card scam forced PSN shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&rsquo;s PlayStation Network has now been out of order for five days, and according to a moderator on the PSX-Scene forums, the real reason behind the shutdown is a credit card scam.<\/p>\n<p>Posting over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/gx6o4\/im_a_moderator_over_at_psxscenecom_the_real\/\" target=\"_blank\">reddit<\/a>, &ldquo;chesh420&rdquo; claims that a recent custom firmware (CFW) release dubbed &ldquo;Codename: Rebug&rdquo; allowed hackers to log their consoles into the PSN as developer debug units. In doing so, they were then able to add funds using dummy credit card numbers &ndash; which, supposedly originating from Sony&rsquo;s private, trusted developer network, were not then checked for authenticity &#8211; to their PSN accounts, and use these to fraudulently acquire premium content.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has only admitted that the downtime was the result of an otherwise unspecified &ldquo;external intrusion&rdquo;, and over the weekend said it was &ldquo;rebuilding&rdquo; the service to &ldquo;provide the system with additional security.&#8221; The PSN remains offline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, you can believe Sony&#8217;s PR team which has kept you completely in the dark, or you can see the list of events above and come to your own conclusion,&#8221; writes chesh420. He also adds that Sony has allegedly issued an order to all developers to upgrade their console firmware, or lose their access to the developer network.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has yet to comment on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s climbin\u2019 in yo\u2019 developer networks, he\u2019s snatchin\u2019 yo\u2019 premium DLC up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}