Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Sony pirate attack, compromise user accounts, 24600000



After the recent hacker attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network is a long time, Sony has admitted that hackers broke into the server 16 and 17 April theft of personal data of users.

This time, hacking accounts, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), created by Sony, stolen personal data on about 24.6 million of accounts of public enterprises, as well as basic information on outdated data from 2007. This database contains approximately 12,700 non-US credit card and expiration date (but not credit card security) and the adoption records of approximately 10,700 customers in Austria, Germany, Holland and Spain.

The personal financial reports of state enterprises, including name, address, e-mail address, date of birth, gender, phone number, user name and password hash. Data from 10 700 entries on the debit card that can be stolen by pirates, including the account number, customer name, account name and address.

During the investigation into the attacks of recent discovery, all servers of public companies, which are similar to EOC services. Sony has apologized to customers for the inconvenience, and e-mail to all customers who have promised to send the stolen data. Company to pay compensation per day for each day of service down, and gave them 30 days to allow more time for the subscription.

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