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Originally Posted by Russic
Why do you have to change all your passwords?
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If you use the same password on many websites or for many services and accounts and it happened to be the same password as you used for PSN (even worse if you used the same username), then the hacker has access to your name and e-mail and contact information and he can tie in the password he stole from the database to your personal information and that's all he needs to get into your accounts.
Why Sony didn't encrypt the password database is beyond me. Most places, when they get infiltrated, will only have something like e-mail addresses stolen but the hackers can't get into the passwords if the entire database is heavily encrypted.