Sony denies being offered to buy back stolen PSN database

Senior Director of Corporate Communications and Social Media at Sony, Patrick Seybold has declined that Sony were offered a choice to buy back database which the hackers stole from them after hacking into the Playstation Network.

Speaking with NYTimes, the man confirmed that there is no truth to this statement:

“To my knowledge there is no truth to the report that Sony was offered an opportunity to purchase the list.”

Mr. Seybold also pointed to a blog post Sony published Thursday that said:

“The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken.”

As it turns out, the hackers very well might be plotting to fool someone into buying the database in order to earn some serious money. We hope this is the case but still would advise readers to check with their banks and ensure that there’s been no suspicious activities carried out with their credit cards.

Earlier today rumours were doing the rounds that hackers were trying to sell of the database stolen from Sony, and had even made an offer to the company in order to buy it back.

We’ll keep you updated as more on this emerges.