Sony Network hack: Credit card details for sale?

BANGALORE, INDIA: Just days after hacking the Sony Playstation Network hackers seem to set make most out their prized possession - the credit card details.

A New York Times blogpost said on Thursday that it had noted discussions on underground Internet forums indicating that the Sony Network hackers may have put the credit card details of PlayStation users for sale in the underground market.

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According to the blog post, the hackers comments indicated that the hackers had a database that included customer names, addresses, user names, passwords and as many as 2.2 million credit card numbers.

The report quotes Kevin Stevens, senior threat researcher at the security firm Trend Micro, as saying that he had seen talk of the database on several hacker forums, including indications that the Sony hackers were hoping to sell the credit card list for upwards of $100,000.  Stevens said one forum member told him the hackers had even offered to sell the data back to Sony but did not receive a response from the company.

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