Sony Ericsson internet store has been attacked

Published: 26 May 2011 y., Thursday

While Sony is facing consequences from the last major attack, another has struck. On April 17-19 hackers managed to get access to more than 100 million Sony Playstation 3 users' data, including information on their credit cards.

It was reported that yesterday Canadian Sony Ericsson internet store was attacked. Sony representatives said that 2000 users' data was stoles, including names, addresses, emails and passwords. Hackers did not get credit card numbers.

It is reported that in recent days other Sony internet sources have been attacked, e.g. 8500 users' data was stolen from Greek music server - Sonymusic.

Šaltinis: penki.lt
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.

Facebook Comments

New comment


Captcha

Associated articles

Anonymous Begins Attacks on Spanish Police Websites

You didn’t expect Anonymous to take the recent Spanish police action against them lying down, did you? more »

Innovative Range of Mobile Services

NOKIA: TheFeature.com launches new, innovative mobile information services at CeBIT 2003 more »

The darkest side of ID theft

When impostors are arrested, victims get criminal records more »

search.lt news

search.lt presents newest links more »

FIX uptake is good news for Swift

Interbank payments network Swift is likely to be the primary beneficiary of FIX uptake by European securities firms, according to a survey conducted by London consultancy City IQ. more »

Visa to hide card numbers in bid to cut identity theft

Visa is to require merchants to display only the last four digits of a credit card number on receipts in a bid to combat a rising tide of financial identity crime more »

Norwegian Court Approves DVD Hack Retrial

A Norwegian court has approved prosecutors' appeal of a teenager's acquittal on charges that he created and circulated online a program that cracks the security codes on DVDs more »

Recruitment website's ID theft warning

Fraudsters pose as employers to steal job-seekers' personal details more »

How Web Services Will Change E-Business

IDC has estimated that just 5 percent of U.S. businesses in 2002 had completed a Web services project. But by 2008, the research firm said, 80 percent of firms will have such a project under way. more »

Credit Card Cos. Watch Own Backs

The credit card industry focuses too much on reducing its own fraud costs and not enough on protecting consumers more »

Chipmakers dip processor prices

PC chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices this week enacted their first sweeping desktop processor price cuts of the year more »