The first reports on the theft of data from 77 million accounts held by the Sony PlayStation Network. And now, late Monday, another 24.6 million accounts can be added to this figure. Executives from Sony must desperately hope that they have now turned the corner and will not face with bad news in the days and weeks. With such enormous numbers of accounts been hacked, we are wondering if there is any more left Sony accounts for hackers to get reality.
Data theft most recent is connected not with the hack PlayStation Network, which took place last month, but with accounts registered with Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), based in San Diego.
An idea that something was suspicious came late Sunday night, when the Japanese electronics giant has suspended its SOE online game service, saying that she had "discovered a question deserving enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately." Ominous words, indeed.
Later, in a press release issued in Tokyo, on May 3 local time, the company said that "hackers can stole clients SOE April 16 and 17, 2011." The statement continues: "…personal information about 24.6 million accounts SOE may have been stolen, and some information from an obsolete database of 2007." The obsolete database information which may have been stolen include about 12 700 non-us credit or debit card numbers and expiry Date (but not the credit card security codes), and about 10 700 direct survey of some customers in Austria flowAllemagnePays-Bas and Spain. ?
According to the press release, the information contained in the accounts of 24.6 million include: "name, address, e-mail address, birth date, gender, telephone number, name and hashed password connection." Includes the information contained in the direct debit documents: "bank account number, name of the client, address name and customer account.
The press release also said that SOE will be granting customers "30 days of extra time on their subscriptions, in addition to compensate for a day for each day the system is stopped." He is also currently of describing "repair" a plan for its PlayStation ? 3 military observers (DC Universe Online and Free Realms). ? More information on this subject will be issued some time this week, but we wonder if this and the recently rolled out "Welcome Back" programme, will be sufficient to keep players from Sony that are undoubtedly feeling rather gross by recent events.
SOE added that he will send e-mails to consumers whose data may have been stolen but also repeated that these emails from Sony would never ask for credit card details, social security numbers or other information that identifies you personally.
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