Barely a few weeks ago, gamers were trying to find out as to why The Sony PlayStation Network was down for so long. Little did they know that Sony had intentionally shut down The PlayStation Network because there had been an attack on the network by hackers.
The PlayStation Network had been down from April 20 and Sony made a public statement about the incident on April 28. The 8 day gap makes one believe that the attack was pretty severe.
Following the security breach by hackers, it came to be known that around 77 Million users personal details including name, addresses, birth dates and the most crucial, credit card information had also been stolen.
A few days later, some security researchers made claims that a list of 2.2 Million PlayStation Network users credit card details were up for sale. Claims were made that the hackers even tried to sell the stolen data back to Sony but Sony refused.
As expected, Sony has rubbished these claims as being false.
If all this wasn't enough, Sony was hit by another attack in which it is believed that details of 25 Million more Sony customers has been compromised.
This breach happened on the Sony Online Entertainment PC games Network. Apart from 25 Million existing customers, records of around 10,000 customers were stolen from an outdated database. It is believed that in this attack, debit card details of customers in Austria and Germany had been stolen.
Sony is having to face flak from all corners owing to all these breaches. The SOE(Sony Online Entertainment) Network has also been shut down for the time being.
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