A Committee of the Congress of the United States asked Sony Computer Entertainment to explain several issues surrounding the massive potential leak of information about the customers of its PlayStation Network.
The network, which serves as e-commerce and gaming platform online for PlayStation 3, offline since more than a week after Sony has discovered that an intruder has broken through its cyberdefenses and in the network. The service is unavailable and Sony warned his 77 million subscribers that their personal information may have been disclosed, including, possibly, credit card numbers.
A Subcommittee of the House of representatives on energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to Sony Friday seeking answers to many of the same issues that users of Sony were on the attack and the response of the company.
Chief among those is apparent slowness of Sony taking the system offline and inform customers. The company said is aware of an intrusion on April 19, but did not take the system offline until a day later. He did not publicly recognize an attack until 22 April, and only 26 April did she notify customers that their information has been stolen.
The letter, a copy is on the Committee's Web site, also seeks answers to other questions, including whether all the clients account data has been stolen, or just subset; How the violation occurred. and if Sony has identified those responsible.
The letter "Sony public statements suggest, there is no evidence given credit card has been taken, but such a scenario may be excluded", said. "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 letter is addressed to Kaz Hirai, President of the game for the Sony U.S. Unit. Hirai is also Sony global game operations.
The Subcommittee on Commerce, trade and manufacturing is expected to introduce legislation on the security of the data more later this year and plans to meet May 4 to discuss the issues of data theft. She seeks answer to Sony in these discussions.
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