Comments on: Sony President offers $1 million in identity theft insurance per user http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/05/06/sony-president-offers-1-million-in-identity-theft-insurance-per-user/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Sun, 19 May 2013 11:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Juli Enn http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/05/06/sony-president-offers-1-million-in-identity-theft-insurance-per-user/comment-page-1/#comment-628315 Juli Enn Tue, 10 May 2011 11:36:27 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=24817#comment-628315 Credit card information not taken and used to their knowledge? We had to have the credit card we used to pay for Play Station Online replaced due to mysterious unauthorized charges that started occurring after the hack. Credit card information not taken and used to their knowledge? We had to have the credit card we used to pay for Play Station Online replaced due to mysterious unauthorized charges that started occurring after the hack.

]]> By: Vinnie Bartilucci http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/05/06/sony-president-offers-1-million-in-identity-theft-insurance-per-user/comment-page-1/#comment-627140 Vinnie Bartilucci Fri, 06 May 2011 16:49:45 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=24817#comment-627140 Literally the least they could do. Such offers (as well as free credit check services for a year) are standard operating procedure for companies whose systems are hacked, and such personal data lost. I'll bet some players will consider the free month of PSNPlus a bugger deal than the identity theft insurance. Indeed, such an offer will probably end up MAKING Sony money, as people who never had the service find value in it and decide to keep it. Such thefts are becoming all too commonplace in the connected world of today. People will fine-tooth-comb Sony's reaction, comparing it to Toyota, not to mention the nuclear regulatory commission in Japan and claim endless iterations of couldawouldashoulda. There will be class action lawsuits (I think at least one has already been instigated) and three years from now we'll all get checks for eighteen cents, while the lawyers make several million. THERE'S theft for you. Literally the least they could do. Such offers (as well as free credit check services for a year) are standard operating procedure for companies whose systems are hacked, and such personal data lost.

I’ll bet some players will consider the free month of PSNPlus a bugger deal than the identity theft insurance. Indeed, such an offer will probably end up MAKING Sony money, as people who never had the service find value in it and decide to keep it.

Such thefts are becoming all too commonplace in the connected world of today. People will fine-tooth-comb Sony’s reaction, comparing it to Toyota, not to mention the nuclear regulatory commission in Japan and claim endless iterations of couldawouldashoulda. There will be class action lawsuits (I think at least one has already been instigated) and three years from now we’ll all get checks for eighteen cents, while the lawyers make several million.

THERE’S theft for you.

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