It's talked about right in these very comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487412 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487412 The data is POSTed over

It's talked about right in these very comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487412 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487412 The data is POSTed over SSL. C'mon, do you really think Sony sends credit card data across the wire in plaintext? If so, it would have been discovered the day the PS3 launched, like five years ago. And, its discovery wouldn't have required any system hacking, as described above. Is it amateur hour here?