Sky reports that Sony got hacked and lost some of its customers data:
Sony has once again been targeted by a group of hackers who claim they gained access to details of one million customers.
By now, I think it is obvious that Sony’s security issues are architectural. It is not a matter of firewall misconfiguration or missed out input validation check. That would have been closed and forgotten months ago. Repeated attacks and extensive downtimes of PlayStation Network indicate that the problems are much deeper and much harder to find and fix.
I think the best option for them now is to go open source. If they open the protocols they use and server software they have – plenty of people will jump on it and create alternative servers and networks. All that will be needed after that is a firmware update that would allow gamers to connect to those alternative networks.
This would mean total awesomeness… hacked multi player servers being one of the view benefits lol.