Comment Re:passwords? (Score 1) 645
The article is speculating. What you start to hear is that they were storing their password answers as plain text, Sony has never said that their passwords were stored as plain text. Meaning, that the answers they would use to recuperate their forgotten passwords (e.g. "What is your mother's maiden name?") were what was compromised.
Now, combined with the rest of the personal information, I think that the password answers to their security questions may lead to more identity theft than actual passwords.