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.

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