[marshray]

Looks to me like guys trying to get banned PS3s back on the game network, not steal user info and credit card numbers.

[user12] know this, sony in realtime, monitors all messages over psn [user12] I verified that, its part of my privacy threats thing I am doing [user5] ok too bad id like the psn messenger on pc [user12] the realtime monitoring is a bit bothersome to me

It seems plausible though that people were using this info to do things which violated Sony's security model and that their security model also didn't effectively separate credit card info from the game data.

For example, there were claims a few weeks ago (Wired or ARS I think) that they were all mixed together in the same SSL stream.