TOKYO (AFP) - the United States, Great Britain, the Australia and the Hong Kong study piracy and theft of personal data from PlayStation Network of Sony, which has 77 million users around the world.
The PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music service closed on 20 April, after Sony has described as an "external intrusion" and remain off line that upgrades security company and is working with federal investigators.
A panel of the House of American officials that Friday sent a letter to Sony President Kazuo Hirai with questions about the breach of the data.
"Sony statement describes the information obtained illegally to include account information as well as potentially profile information," said the letter of a panel of the Committee on energy and Commerce, which was posted on the Internet.
"Given the amount and the nature of the personal information that have been taken, the harm that may be caused if the credit card information has been also taken would quite important."
The Committee, which scheduled a hearing on 4 May to discuss the issues of data theft, also asked Sony to explain why he thinks that the credit card information has not held although it is impossible to determine the exact extent of the theft.
The Japanese electronics giant said the users credit card data has been encrypted, but could not pronounce on the possibility that the map data was obtained by hackers.
In Britain, the Information Commissioner's Office said it had contacted Sony and make the "requests for additional information to establish the exact nature of the incident before deciding what measures, if any, must be taken."
Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim the Australia also said that it had launched an investigation.
"We see more and more now information held in the world and is more is the responsibility of organizations to ensure that they have in place solid security systems to protect this information," he told broadcaster ABC earlier this week.
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner Allan Chiang said it was probing the violation and met with the local representative of Sony Katsuhiko Murase, who told him of 400,000 Hong Kong PlayStation Network user accounts were involved.
He said that Murase said the compromised account information include name, address, country, email, date of birth, the PSN password and login address, and PSN ID online users, but no there is no evidence that credit card data has been taken.
Sony continued in an American Court by players who accused the company to be evidence of negligence and of violating its agreements with the PlayStation Network users.
The company has not indicated if it identified a culprit of the intrusion.
Anonymous Internet vigilante group promised retaliation against Sony for the action against pirates who cracked PS3 defences to change the operating software console.
Sony PS3 consoles sold approximately $ 48 million worldwide since they hit the market in November 2006.
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