The news, if confirmed, is likely to provoke further anger against the worldwide network of users of the PlayStation and Sony: the onslaught of players online computer network to the console would not only lead to the removal of personal data of users, but also approximately 2 million 200 thousand credit card numbers used to pay the connection to the network itself and for the purchase of film and video.
To reveal this news is a leading global supplier of systems of protection and security, Trend Micro. Kevin Stevens, a member of American society, says that the possible perpetrators of the attack on the PlayStation Network are holding a database containing stolen information to Sony and they are trying to sell the list of credit cards at a price of approximately 100 000 dollars.
Stevens says he was attending the forum this information "protected" by hackers. In support of this information, the exponent of Trend Micro also reported that the perpetrators of the attack information to the Sony would try to sell to the multinational Japan the entire database. Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold has however denied that they are coming together "offers" to do so.
The data of credit cards - he said - were protected and we have no evidence that this information has been stolen. " The fact, however, that the attack eight days, Sony has still not been able to establish whether there have been so important data theft casts a shadow on the disturbing situation in the network, still stuck.
According to a security consultant to Isec Partners, Mathew Solnik, "people who are offering to know these details on the database 'server farm' of Sony, which suggests that at least have a direct knowledge of the attack mode and effects" . Meanwhile, all over the world there is great concern for each other.
The governments of Germany and Britain called for Sony's official explanation on attachment to the computer, while consumer groups and lawyers are considering the forms and times of a class action against the Japanese multinational world. The damage to users who might be reflected on the computer company were approximately estimated at about a billion and half dollars.
The title of the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell apart because of the concern of a class action lawsuit with an international dimension. Even in Italy, several consumer groups have turned the Privacy that is opened an investigation into the theft of data. In our country are one and half million registered players in the system developed by Sony. 
To reveal this news is a leading global supplier of systems of protection and security, Trend Micro. Kevin Stevens, a member of American society, says that the possible perpetrators of the attack on the PlayStation Network are holding a database containing stolen information to Sony and they are trying to sell the list of credit cards at a price of approximately 100 000 dollars.
Stevens says he was attending the forum this information "protected" by hackers. In support of this information, the exponent of Trend Micro also reported that the perpetrators of the attack information to the Sony would try to sell to the multinational Japan the entire database. Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold has however denied that they are coming together "offers" to do so.
The data of credit cards - he said - were protected and we have no evidence that this information has been stolen. " The fact, however, that the attack eight days, Sony has still not been able to establish whether there have been so important data theft casts a shadow on the disturbing situation in the network, still stuck.
According to a security consultant to Isec Partners, Mathew Solnik, "people who are offering to know these details on the database 'server farm' of Sony, which suggests that at least have a direct knowledge of the attack mode and effects" . Meanwhile, all over the world there is great concern for each other.
The governments of Germany and Britain called for Sony's official explanation on attachment to the computer, while consumer groups and lawyers are considering the forms and times of a class action against the Japanese multinational world. The damage to users who might be reflected on the computer company were approximately estimated at about a billion and half dollars.
The title of the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell apart because of the concern of a class action lawsuit with an international dimension. Even in Italy, several consumer groups have turned the Privacy that is opened an investigation into the theft of data. In our country are one and half million registered players in the system developed by Sony.
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