{"id":11514,"date":"2011-04-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-stolen-psn-credit-card-numbers-now-being-sold-on-the-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/11514-rumour-control-stolen-psn-credit-card-numbers-now-being-sold-on-the-black-market","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: Stolen PSN credit card numbers now being sold on the black market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to cyber-security firm Trend Micro&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/killercube\/status\/63625145977290752\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Stevens<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/psx-scene.com\/forums\/f6\/psn-database-containing-2-2million-credit-cards-now-up-sale-85702\/\" target=\"_blank\">PSX-Scene.com<\/a>, the hackers behind the PlayStation Network breach are now flogging off a database of some 2.2 million stolen credit card numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The database apparently includes not only the card face numbers, but also the owner&rsquo;s first name and surname; address; phone number; email address; email password; date of birth; and credit card number, expiry state and security code.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2011\/04\/28\/3202046.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8217;t personally accrue,&#8221; Rory Speckley tells the news channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But it could just be another scam<\/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":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","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=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}