Sony PSN Services to be Restored in ‘Few More Days’
Sony has said it will be at least a few more days before it restores the PlayStation Network, which has been offline since it was hacked last month. “I know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored,” Patrick Seybold, Sony’s senior director of corporate communications and social media, wrote on [...]
Sony said hackers breached security for a second online service, gaining access to personal information for 24.6 million customer as part of a broader attack on the company that has compromised data for more than 100 million accounts, The Wall Street Journal reported. On the heels of last month’s data breach of Sony’s PlayStation system, [...]
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Sony announced today it has reached a settlement with PlayStation 3 hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz, who agreed to a permanent injunction, Ars Technica reported. “Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers,” Sony’s general counsel Riley Russell said in a statement. “We believe this settlement and the permanent [...]
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Infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous has turned its eye to Sony, with denial-of-service attacks in retaliation for the tech giant’s lawsuit against a PS3 hacker who is accused of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and for allegedly contributing to copyright infringement. Earlier this year, Sony filed for a [...]
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