Security investigators have been tracking conversations on specific "hacker forums" that highlight a possible ransom demand of $100,000 for credit card information stolen from the PlayStation Network.

As the , the purported credit card database contains the names of PSN customers, along with their billing addresses, PSN usernames, and passwords. As far as raw credit card data, 2.2 million number were supposedly stolen in the online raid. Sony had supposedly been contacted with a ransom demand on at least one occasion but didn't respond to the hacker in question, if the anonymous forum members are to be believed.

Sony executive Patrick Seybold claims that "there is no truth to the report that Sony was offered an opportunity to purchase the list." Of course, Sony has also claimed that credit card information in the database was encrypted, and that only personally-identifiable information was at risk. Strangely, that same point is refuted by various groups, who say that the hackers had the necessary access to obtain the encrypted information.