A recent report by Ars Technica suggested that a hacker claiming to have broken into the PlayStation Network (PSN) and in the process discovered that potentially sensitive data, including credit card information is being saved and forwarded to Sony, perhaps unencrypted. According to the hacker in question, the card details are sent like the example below. creditCard.paymentMethodId=VISA&creditCard.holderName=Max&creditCard.cardNumber=45581234567812345678&creditCard.expireYear=2012&creditCard.expireMonth=2&creditCard.securityCode=214&creditCard.address.address1=example street%2024%20&creditCard.address.city=city1%20&creditCard.address.province=abc%20&creditCard.address.postalCode=12345%20 The report also claims that your PS3 is constantly monitoring what you’re doing, what accessories are connected and even, wait for it, what kind of television you’re using! “Sony is the biggest spy ever… they collect so much data. All connected devices return values sent to Sony’s servers,” Users who have not hacked or are not running any custom firmwares, homebrew softwares have no need to be concerns as this is only an issue for folks who have install any non-recommended software on their consoles. All that’s required with a custom firmware is for a malicious hacker to route all PSN traffic through their own system, meaning they’d have access to anything that Sony does. That includes your unencrypted credit card numbers. Stay tuned for more news and info by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed. Authors:

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