According to a WallStreet report, So-net Entertainment Corp, an Internet service provider subsidiary of Sony Corp., said an online intruder accessed its customer rewards site earlier this week and stole customers’ redeemable gift points worth about $1,225. Sony’s infamous hack on online gaming networks including PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment has already become one [...]
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So-net hack adds to the list of hacks and data leakages from Sony
Posted: 20th May 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, NewsTags: Playstation Network, PSN, So-net, Sony
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Sony PSN restoration faces a glitch
Posted: 16th May 2011 by infosecindia in NewsTags: PlayStation, PS3, PSN, Sony
After much delay and promises of ‘quick restoration’ of its PlayStation Network Services, Sony finally started restoring the online gaming platform on Sunday. However, in less than into the restoration process, Sony faced a major glitch. Sony announced Sunday that PSN users can start updating the firmware on their PS3 and will be able to change their [...]
Sony offers $1 million identity theft insurance policy for users affected with PSN hack
Posted: 6th May 2011 by infosecindia in Data Privacy, NewsTags: AllClear ID Plus, compensation, Debix, identity theft, PlayStation, PSN, Qriocity, Sony
Last weekend, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that it will provide complimentary enrollment in an identity theft protection program. Here are the details of this program for PlayStation Network and Qriocity account holders in the United States only. Sony said it is working to make similar programs available in other countries/territories where applicable. Sony has made arrangements with [...]
Another 25 million users’ data stolen in the second Sony hack
Posted: 3rd May 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data PrivacyTags: hackers, PlayStation, PSN, Sony, user data
Sony has disclosed that hackers stole the names, addresses and passwords of nearly 25 million more users than previously known less than a day after the Japanese company apologized for one of the worst break-ins in Internet history. On Sunday, Sony apologized to its users for the incident that was initially thought to have impacted [...]
Sony details compensation for PSN users, plans services restoration
Posted: 1st May 2011 by infosecindia in NewsTags: compensation, freebies, PlayStation, PSN, Qriocity, Sony
Sony is expected to begin a phased restoration by region of PlayStationNetwork and Qriocity services, beginning with gaming, music and video services to be turned on. The company today announced both a series of immediate steps to enhance security across the network and a new customer appreciation program, filled with freebies to ‘thank its customers’ for [...]
Sony PlayStation Hack is the Fourth Largest Hack in History
Posted: 28th April 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data PrivacyTags: data breach, hack, PII, PlayStation, PS3, PSN, Sony
Last week’s hack on Sony’s PlayStation Network has been listed as the fourth largest data breach ever in history, exposing the personally identifiable information (PII) and possibly credit card data of about 70 million users, according to DataLossdb, an open source foundation that monitors data breaches across the world. IT security firm, Sophos, is warning users of Sony’s [...]
Sony accepts users’ personal data breached in PSN hack
Posted: 27th April 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: data breach, outage, personal data, PlayStation, PSN, Qriocity, Sony
With millions of gamers affected with Sony PlayStation outage, Sony says it might take another week to bring back its networks. However, this isn’t the bigger issue at the moment. What’s alarming for the millions of PlayStation users is that amidst the rumors that admin accounts were breached in the attack on Sony, the company has [...]
Sony PSN outage update: Day 6
Posted: 26th April 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: Day 6, outage, PlayStation, PS3, PSN, Sony
There seems to be no end to the Sony PlayStation outage. While Sony has announced that its systems were hacked post which the company had to bring down PSN servers, there are now raising privacy concerns over the personal contact details and credit card information of PS3 users, which was stored on PSN servers. Satoshi [...]
Admin accounts breached in the attack on Sony PSN
Posted: 25th April 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, DDoS, NewsTags: Anonymous, data breach, DDoS, outage, PlayStation, PSN, Skynet, Sony
After a long lazy weekend that was practically wasted because of an attack on Sony PlayStation Network, bringing down PSN to a complete halt, gamers woke up Monday morning with a ray of hope that Sony for sure would’ve fixed PSN by now. To their dismay, PSN is still down, even after 5 days of [...]