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Article | 3/05/2011 Sony Online Entertainment hacked, 12,700 credit cards stolen
Not quite out of the frying pan, but into the fire anyway: Sony just acknowledged another network breach related to the first one.
Article | 1/05/2011 Projected cost of Epsilon breach jumps to $4 billion
The ultimate fee for the data breach last month at email service provider Epsilon could reach as high as $4 billion, depending on what becomes of the ...
Article | 2/05/2011 Sony finds no apparent Anonymous link to PlayStation attack
Sony said it has found no link between an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and Internet activist group Anonymous, which had ear...
Article | 1/05/2011 Sony apologizes, details PlayStation Network attack
Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services will begin a phased resumption this week, after the company took them offline in response to a...
Article | 30/04/2011 Sony's Hirai to brief on PlayStation hack on Sunday
Sony is expected to provide its most detailed update yet on Sunday on a hack that hit the PlayStation Network and the status of personal information a...
Article | 30/04/2011 US Congress wants answers from Sony on PlayStation hack
A U.S. congressional committee has asked Sony Computer Entertainment to explain several issues surrounding the massive potential leak of information o...
Article | 30/04/2011 Did hackers really get credit card numbers from Sony?
Reports surfaced Friday that the hackers behind last week's breach of Sony's PlayStation Network obtained millions of credit card numbers, but the evi...
Article | 29/04/2011 Sony hints at compensation for PlayStation Network hack
Sony may offer users some form of compensation for the outage, now in its 8th day, of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services, its U.S. u...
Article | 29/04/2011 Delay announcing Sony PlayStation Network breach may be linked to criminal investigation
It's still unclear why it took Sony so long to admit it lost customers' personally identifiable information in the wake of the PlayStation Network att...
Article | 29/04/2011 The Sony Playstation breach notification letter that broke 77 million hearts
The Sony PlayStation Network data breach that exposed personal and password information -- and possibly credit cards -- of an estimated 77 million peo...
Article | 29/04/2011 NY Yankees staffer accidentally e-mails customer list
A customer service representative with the New York Yankees accidentally e-mailed out personal details on close to 18,000 season ticket holders, the b...
Article | 28/04/2011 The Sony PlayStation Network breach: An identity-theft bonanza
The massive Sony PlayStation Network data breach that exposed personal and password information -- and possibly credit cards -- of an estimated 77 mil...
Article | 27/04/2011 Sony: PlayStation Network personal user data stolen
Things just got a lot worse for users of the Sony PlayStation Network. With the service still offline after almost six days, Sony has now said that an...
Article | 22/04/2011 US man pleads guilty to $36.6 million worth of ID theft
A Georgia man connected to US$36.6 million in credit card fraud pleaded guilty Thursday to trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated iden...
Article | 22/04/2011 Epsilon pledges to build 'Fort Knox' around breached system
E-mail marketing giant Epsilon will build an industry-leading security system in response to a March 30 breach in which thieves gained access to the e...