Sony Online Entertainment: SOE hacked

[Voltari]

If you've played any SOE MMORPG/online games, this might affect you.

From SOE's website with a blurb dated today, 5/2/11.
http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/

May 2, 2011

Dear Valued Sony Online Entertainment Customer:
Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password.

Customers outside the United States should be advised that we further discovered evidence that information from an outdated database from 2007 containing approximately 12,700 non-US customer credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes) and about 10,700 direct debit records listing bank account numbers of certain customers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Spain may have also been obtained. We will be notifying each of those customers promptly.

So my personal information tied to my SOE account might be compromised? And if I happen to be a customer outside the US, then my non-US credit card and or debt card information might be compromised too?

Voltari

P.S. I posted this on another board, and I thought it appropriate to share this bad news here too.

[Gisli]

Voltari -- Lile was telling me all about this yesterday. She kept playing EQ for a year or so after we went off to DAOC.

[Vasan]

They say if you played eq1, eq 2, swg, dc or any other sony games there is a good chance your information is out there. Time to change any passwords that might be at all similar to ones used in those games.