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Sony: hacked, thwacked, cracked'¦ again!!!
Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 03 May 2011 10:35
Oops'¦ Sony's done it again. No longer can the venerable Japanese electronics behemoth simply 'make.believe' its networks are secure, no longer is network security just a final fantasy. In the real world, consequences can be worse!
No, it's the real world, and the nightmare scenario of customer data going up and out of the digital chimney is affected customers in the real world, and reportedly screwing around with their digital lives.
The latest news of Sony's latest digital blunder comes from Ars Technica, which noticed a notice from Sony's 'Online Entertainment' division, which runs Sony's massive multiplayer online games, something that is separate and distinct from the PSN Playstation Network and Qriocity music download services.
Ars quoted two Sony statements, the first for SOE, where Sony stated it had 'discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems.'
Sony's notice continued: 'We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password.'
Interestingly, however, along with the presumed gazillions of other credit card details and passwords, logins, and other personally identifiable information that seems to be as secure as a brand new piece of supposedly uncrackable technology in the hands of George 'Geohot' Hotz, is an admission of further data loss.
Sony could rebrand its dilemma as a weight loss solution, not a data loss solution, and it'd have most of America and Australia as instant customers. Heck, I'd even be interested, I certainly need to lose a few pounds, or kilos as we say here downunder.
I mean, Aussies do have a 'she'll be right, mate' type of attitude to most adversity, but in Sony's case, it's verging on the ridiculous.
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