Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Million bank data stolen: Sony reports hacker attack on another network

The extent of the security leaks at Sony is getting bigger: Even the online entertainment network of SOE electronics giant was attacked by hackers who were spied on sensitive bank data of millions of users.  Customers in Europe are particularly affected. The data leak at Sony is getting bigger: hackers, according to the Japanese electronics giant in the network of subsidiary Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) penetrated.

As the company announced on Tuesday in Tokyo, which they may have stolen personal information of about 24.6 million user accounts. This had been identified during a review. The now become known incident occurred, according to Sony on 16 and 17 April. Operation of SOE was set on Monday morning.

Sony had been only last week, knew that hackers cracked the online network of game console Playstation and the music and movie service Qriocity and had stolen sensitive data. An estimated 77 million users worldwide, the Group subsequently warned by e-mail from potential theft. In addition to this hacker attack of 17 to 19 April had Internet pirates on 16 and 17 April also entered at SOE, the company said.

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