This comment struck me as strange: “Sony is saying the credit cards were encrypted, but we are hearing that the hackers made it into the main database, which w

This comment struck me as strange: “Sony is saying the credit cards were encrypted, but we are hearing that the hackers made it into the main database, which would have given them access to everything, including credit card numbers,” said Mathew Solnik, a security consultant with iSEC Partners who frequents hacker forums to track new hacks and vulnerabilities that could affect his clients." I am by no means a security expert (let alone novice) - though I know what words like "salt" and "hash" mean - and this seems to my layman ears like a gross distortion of the threat. If their encryption was approached properly, Mr. Solnik's comment makes no sense at all; don't the crackers just have a huge database of gobbledygook (assuming Sony approached their encryption intelligently)? This is not a rhetorical comment - I would be interested to hear from our resident HN security gurus on the actual threat to Sony customers.