As you may know, Sony has recently had some really big issues with its online gaming service for Playstation - Playstation Network. Basically, the service was hacked and it was down for about a week. First days Sony claimed that it was just a maintaining works but later they announced that their network has been hacked and 77 million accounts with full information about their owners were stolen. Those accounts also included credit cards information. There were 12.7 million of redit cards registered on PSN.
I think that this issue shows us how far we are now from safe Internet and full integration of e-commerce in our lives.
Just think about it. Some guys hacked such a big system as PSN. They were able to steal all the information and Sony could do nothing about it. It shows that such hacking is possible. Now ask yourself - Do you feel safe in the Internet?
As a member of PSN network I can't disagree with you. Nowadays people tend to become more and more dependant from internet and associated services, which is a rather unpleasant tendency since these transactions are impossible to secure.
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