TOKYO- Sony said Saturday about 2,500 customers names and partial addresses stolen by hackers had discovered posted online it is struggling to recover from the largest ever break of Internet security.
"The Web site was obsolete and inactive when discovered in continuing attacks on Sony", based in the United States Sony Electronics said in a statement online.
The data were customers, mainly American, who had entered a sweepstake product, 2001, the company said.
The company "immediately took the website down, and we underpin aggressiveness of residual links to the list", he said, without giving further details on the site.
Attack of pirates last month resulted in the theft of names, email addresses and optionally, information from credit card in addition to 100 million accounts with platforms online Sony.
Later, the company said that its platform of Sony Online Entertainment has been also affected.
Sony said it would offer PlayStation Network and Qriocity users free membership for 12 months in an agreement which would include a 1 million per user of insurance against identity theft.
She added that he was working to make available similar programs elsewhere.
The failure was a blow for Sony as it focuses on pushing content such as games and music through hardware platforms, including game consoles, smartphones, and tablet computers competition from iTunes and the App store from Apple store.
Sony to the Japan also said Saturday that he is unlikely to meet its voluntary deadline to restore the PlayStation Network and other online services.
Sony closed the network and the music of Qriocity streaming service on 20 April to investigate the hack and guarantee them against future attacks and last Sunday, said he would begin their recovery less than a week.
But he said Saturday: "the company takes time to strengthen the protection and the consolidation of data, in addition to construct necessary to refresh higher security supervisory duties".
"The company resume services by stages in different regions, after ensuring the safety of customers," she added in a statement.
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