[Update – December 23 – 10:28 am] In the promised follow-up report, Numerama’s Nicolas Lellouche confirmed that the fatal security flaw with Sony’s security systems lies in how the account ownership is verified. Hackers managed to hack the journalist’s PlayStation Network account twice using a transaction number, which was asked as proof of account ownership, a number that was obtained via a screenshot shared by the account’s owner. The procedure is obviously flawed, and not only because no other data was requested to provide proof of ownership, but also because three consecutive requests related to the same account did not […]
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