Sony Admits Another Hacker Attack, 24.6 Million User Accounts Compromised

May 3, 2011 - PRLog -- After a recent hacker attack took down the Sony PlayStation Network for an extended period of time, Sony has admitted that hackers broke into its servers on April 16 and 17 and may have stolen personal user data.

This time, hackers targeted the accounts of Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users; according to Sony, they may have stolen personal data from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts, as well as some of the data from an outdated database from 2007. This database includes approximately 12,700 non-U.S. credit or debit card numbers and expiration dates (but not credit card security codes), and about 10,700 direct debit records of some customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.

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The personal data from the SOE accounts includes name, address, email address, birth date, gender, phone number, login name and hashed password. The data from the 10,700 debit card records that may have been stolen by hackers includes bank account number, customer name, account name and customer address.

While its investigating this newly discovered attacks, SOE has shut down all servers related to SOE services. Sony apologized to its customers for any inconvenience and promised to send emails to all costumers whose data may have been stolen. The company will also compensate customers one day for each day its service has been down and grant them 30 days of additional time on their subscriptions.

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