NEW YORK- Sony Corp. has defended its response to a massive Internet security breach in a letter to Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, who accused the company of his feet to notify consumers.
Kazuo Hirai, President and CEO, Sony computer entertainment group, has written that Sony had worked as quickly as possible to inform consumers about data theft. Reuters obtained a copy of the letter, dated 5 may, Friday.
Blumenthal, a former Attorney General, said that Sony had acted too slowly in sending emails from 500,000 at the time to consumers after the breach that exposed data personal in addition to 100 million of its users of the online video game.
Sony has said that he could not excluded that some 12.3 million credit card numbers were obtained for piracy.
The company, under fire since the breach, noticed an activity not allowed on its network on 19 April and reported to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, on April 22.
Hirai wrote that it took more time to send notices that "these e-mails are not ' batch' email." Emails are individually adapted to the accounts of our consumers. ?
He said that the company had to comply with various laws of the State get out the word to consumers in the articles of the blog on its PlayStation Web site.
The notification was explained in a blog by Sony on April 26.
Hirai wrote that Sony had himself found "in the cross-hairs of controversy" and that cyber crime has become a problem in society. "What happened to us, much more extensive scope, has happened to many others before,"he says. ".
Blumenthal said in a statement Friday that Sony has taken a "strong first step."
Thursday, Chief Executive Howard Stringer of Sony has broken its silence on piracy in apologizing in a letter to consumers on the Web site of the PlayStation.
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