Sony settles 2011 network breach with familiar giveaway
Remember when Sony was hacked? No, not THAT time they were hacked. Or the time before that. I’m talking about way back in 2011, when their database of paying customers on the Playstation Network was broken into and thousands of credit cards were stolen. The Playstation Network had to be shut down for a few days while they patched things up with gum and waited for the next breach. Sony elected to give away some free games to make their public forget. (For their sake I hope they didn’t.) The breach resulted in a lawsuit, and you know how slow the American legal system is, so the suit is just now being settled. Sony had to agree to provide the users of PSN or any of its other networks (Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment) some kind of cash settlement. They’ve chosen to do this in the form of game giveaways, and they look familiar: Infamous, LittleBigPlanet, Super Stardust HD, God of War HD and a few free menu themes. You