Tuesday, April 26, 2011

70 million Sony PlayStation users information was breach



According to CNBC.com Tuesday Sony said the security breach on the PlayStation network is Much worse than expected in that hackers octane personal information For all 70 million subscribers of the PlayStation network
This information was posted in a company blog posted Tuesday afternoon six days after the PlayStation network suddenly when off-line Sony is on shore if the hackers up tane any credit card information But Sony is still investigating this situation . Hackers may have obtained your name your zip code your address country . State and your e-mail address Sony says the attack has led them to rebuild the PlayStation network they hope to have some service back on line with in a week o far, no hacker group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The rogue group known as Anonymous, which has famously launched attacks on both Gene Simmons and Hustler Magazine, was initially suspected, after it vowed in early April to target Sony after the company's legal action against a hacker who dismantled the PS3's security.

The group managed to disrupt the service with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack earlier this month. (Anonymous attackers, using software known as “Low Orbit Ion Cannons,” repeatedly pinged the company's servers. When done simultaneously by enough users, this can bring the site down — usually quickly and without warning.) However, Anonymous denies responsibility for this incident, saying on its site, "While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves, AnonOps was not related to this incident and does not take responsibility for whatever has happened." While consumers impacted by the hack are Sony's first priority, the continued outage of the PlayStation Network is also impacting its developer partners (both internal and external). The company has reportedly vowed to help some of the game makers who are seeing their revenues dry up.

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