Playstation Home Hacked

The Telegraph reports today that Playstation Home has been hacked, less than a week since the launch of the open beta.  These hacks allow users to manipulate the environment on their personal machines to display content other than intended, as well as providing access to download any file they want from Sony’s webservers.

More scary, however, is a hack allowing users to upload or delete any file they want from the Home Server.  This presents the opportunity for hackers to send malware to every single Home-enabled PS3 on the planet, or to perform DDOS attacks using PS3s.

That’s pretty much the worst case scenario for a console environment, short of leaking customer PIFs and credit card numbers.  Sounds like Home needs a security review before they let it out of Beta.

You know, in addition to the fact that it’s basically useless.