SONY declines the report that hackers offered to sell the credit cards numbers back. It is claimed by the security researchers that about 2.2 million Play Station Network user’s credit cards are hacked by the hackers. And a list of containing three digit security codes of there credit cards are offered by the hackers to sony.

But on 2nd may, sony denied this report.Sony’s Patrick Seybold said that the reports were false and that no one in the company recalls such an event occurring.  Although it was admitted by sony that personal information of about 77 million play station network users has been hacked.

According to Nick Caplin, the firm’s head of communication in Europe,“To my knowledge there is no truth to this report of a list, or that Sony was offered an opportunity to purchase the list.” Seybold Patrick also said that, contrary to published reports, passwords were not stored in a plain text file. This report also does not make a good sense as why sony buy this list of security codes which can be easily copied and resold.

Still sony claims that the encrypted data base had not been hacked. But there is also the stories of missuse of the credit cards of some playstation network users by hackers which remains a mystery. About 10 million credit cards are at risk of hacking. Sony denied claims its customer’s credit card data is for sale, it was forced to confess another major security breach had been detected by its investigation.

About 25 million PC gamer’s personal details were stolen from Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) on April 16 and 17, just before  the PlayStation Network breach. Although there was no proof of  main SOE credit card database was breached, Sony said that “ it can be possible that an outdated database may have obtained”.This  database have credit card details or direct debit information of around 23,400 European customers . Sony did not say whether it was encrypted or not.