Marzuk posted:
It took Sony weeks to own up to it, and on top of it all their statement iirc was quite vague. On the other hand, there was a problem noted with Steam Forums, they are taken offline pretty quickly, and a couple days later we get a notice of what they had access to and what we should look out for.
Not only that, an open statement that passwords and credit card data were hashed and salted is a good thing as well. Contrast this to Sony not stating this immediately and upfront, (even Googling it now yields rampant accusations of plain-text, which they later denied) and its just not even in the same ballpark.
I'm not saying Steam is completely blameless, but its far better than how Sony handled things. Lets also not forget that Sony was compromised multiple times, and that PSN was down for quite some time.
I think its not so much any one thing on Sonys end, but a combination of things.
And then for the next X months Sony kept finding out other databases of theirs had just been hacked......
