Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Hackers steal 77 million Playstation users' personal info

Sony Corp warns that names, addresses, credit card details have been compromised; company comes under fire for waiting to disclose crisis.

Jerusalem Post -  TOKYO/NEW YORK - Sony Corp warned that hackers had stolen names, addresses and possibly credit card details from the 77 million user accounts of its video game online network, in one of the largest Internet security break-ins ever.

The Japanese electronic giant pulled the plug on the network on April 19 after finding out about the breach in its popular PlayStation Network, a service that produces an estimated $500 million in annual revenues.


Sony did not tell the public about the stolen data until Tuesday, hours after it had unveiled in Japan its first tablet computers.     Read More