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This title strikes me as misleading. It should not come as a surprise that the personal information gathered in the first attack will be used for this purpose. It's just shocking that PSN forgot or misunderstood that they themselves were the first and easiest target.

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I agree, the term "hack" is even more abused than the term "hacker" these days. I guess it makes for a good headline.

Yes, it irks me too. I consider myself a "hack" when it comes to programming. I tinker, I play, I build, but I have mostly surface knowledge. "Hacker" is a term that should be reserved for real programmers who actually know what they are doing and dig deep into vast reserves of knowledge to get around barriers that us mere hacks would come to a halting screech at.

Well, IMHO being "tinkerer" is an important trait for a "hacker" :).

I was thinking about the hacker == kids who DDoS mastercard or steal infos from the PSN. Some of them might be hackers, but that's not what a hacker is. Bruteforcing PSN accounts using a stolen DB is not really the mark of a hacker's job for me.

Agree, using past information for previous hack is not by definition a new kind of risk.

PSN will need more time to properly recover all previous hacked accounts.

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