I'm not a Sony fanboy, but a clear points needs to be made. The hacker claims to have done this as part of a boycott or something, the Anon is upset with sony for whatever reason, and is not doing this as far as we know for money. Whomever they are, they enjoy watching the company squirm. The second point is the hacker sent a message saying the next attack will happen as soon as the psn is back up, but will not affect the users (as badly). There is also the fact they are saying this so that you are "on your toes" about your information, the truth could be, yes, they got all your info, but plan to do nothing with it, or no, this is just a precaution in the worst case scenario, and they don't feel like getting sued for not telling you it could be all out there.

So yes, this isn't a bad time to buy an Xbox360, but, need I remind you of the 2 week live blackout around Halo 3? Perfectly good time to buy a ps3 then. Microsoft finally said "Tag!" when we tripped over a wire of some sadistic 6 year old.