Hackers really obtain the Sony credit card numbers? (PC World)

Reports resurfaced Friday that the hackers behind the breach of the week last PlayStation Network from Sony gets millions of credit card numbers, but the evidence seems for the moment weak.

Sony confirmed earlier this week that its PlayStation Network and Qriocity service had been hacked, and that there was a chance its customers credit card numbers can I have been compromised.

Thursday, researcher of Trend Micro Kevin Stevens posted a Twitter message that read: "hackers who pirated NHPS sold off the coast of the [database] DB." "They allegedly have the credit cards of 2.2 million with CVVs." CVVs are card verification values, safety codes required for online transactions.

Its source was chatter in the underground hacker forums. "I have seen the DB so I can't verify that this is true," he added.

A few hours later, Stevens seemed to think that the tweet was taken seriously. "This # PSNHack turns into a pile of FUD, it really is.". I posted up until I saw to warn the people, not to incite the masses to create FUD, "he wrote."

Later Friday, a Trend Micro spokesman refused to comment on the case. A second company, Isec Partners, who had also claimed to see the discussion on the PlayStation Network hack online, is also not to publicly talk about on the subject.

The evidence so far - some anonymous boasts in the underground hacker forums - "very suspicious" is, according to the Lo-Ping blog, which has posted screenshots of the forum messages.

Sony has not responded to a request for comments.

E.J. Hilbert, President of information online, that investigation of fraud, think PlayStation hackers, called modders, may have accidentally stumbled on the data of the user but not actually stolen it.

"I do not think that he was really an intrusion", he said by e-mail. "I think that modders had access, Sony has found and panicked.". Technically, it is an intrusion, but it is not possible has been stolen, "he says.

"View of Sony, they know that happen if something was taken, so it is better then intrusion claim [wait and]"see what happens,"" he said.