The company said that Sony Music Entertainment Greece learned about the data breach on Sunday evening. She touched artists' sites, where can fans sign up for newsletters. The pages were taken up immediately, the company said. The files contain compromise e-mails, phone numbers, user names and passwords. However, no credit card information stolen. The sites that were hosted by a third party, will be revived after a security review, the company said.
20. April Sony PlayStation close his services after a security breach disclosed personal information of 77 million users. PlayStation Network - play games with the user's friends around the world and download movies and games on the Internet - has separated after officials learned days before an attacker has stolen personal data of its 77 million users.
Been exercised for many players lost the recent news about possible security breaches, data or financial information is missing the simplest, the most important point: When I get to play again?
Sony PlayStation Network violation was one of those things that would not happen. And the subsequent failure of the network was one of those things that many players do not really, really, really happens. Of course, players can play locally, outside the network - as in "for themselves." But this can be a bit like playing tennis "for themselves." Possibly (but not necessarily) leads to fatigue, sun poisoning, heat trace, and never be in a position where all the balls are a little blurry. And for some, it seemed that Sony is not very forthcoming what had happened, or in those early days that something important had happened.
These observations seem to have crossed the mind of Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-California, and Representative GK Butterfield, D-North Carolina have. PlayStation Network relates to the injury of millions of young voters, the Congress was then in the law, ask Sony to give some explanations. In a letter to its chairman, asked a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce, why Sony waited so long to inform customers about the breach.
Representative Bono Mack and Butterfield asked how they could be non-secure credit card stolen and if Sony knew the identity of those responsible.
Or, at the discretion of the letter:
"Dear Sony,Come on, if we have the chance to Portal 2?Later,Congress. "
Sony said the network this week. And here it is Thursday afternoon, no play
Until the network back into operation at full power, as the players go to the error? Read? PS3 shows on their television and mumbled, are you crying? Practice knife kills on mail security by tightening rubber spatulas?
"People always talk about their PS3 hardware is better," said Mike Pascuzzi, a player 27-year-old from Houston. "So for all the Xbox, that's hysterical. I have a PS3 and Xbox, I'm in both camps. But you see now why Xbox Live costs money. He added that the security -. part of what you pay for it is safer, so it is safer. "
"However," Pascuzzi says: "I have my credit card from the Xbox servers yesterday."
Courtney Nawara works in the gaming industry and lives in Tampa, Florida. In her house, she played on a PS3, Xbox360 and Wii.
"Some games play better on a system or are not available to another," she said.
"Viva Pinata is seems to be better on the PS3 over the Xbox360 only on the Xbox 360, Portal 2. The Wii seems like a good idea at the time, but it is hardly affected."
Nawara is always a fan of Sony, but is waiting for responses from tech giant.
"I wish I knew how easy it was to be compromised for the safety of Sony, the amount of the credit card information was disclosed and how to do it," she said. "As of my information when I have played Everquest, seven years ago still stored in their system?"
wait As players around the world bring their pets with nostalgia, even comforting, ergonomic PS3 game controller that featured many of the same question Nawara is: "I also want to know what Sony stop to it, done it again."
From his home in Los Angeles, Andrew Walker said he is frustrated by the failure of PSN and spent more time on the Microsoft system.
"I just wish my Xbox is not like a helicopter taking off when I turn it look," he said.
Walker feels much of the work of Sony, the network is opened again. Another big game? A kind of digital mea culpa tour.
"Sony did not have a kind of grand gesture of returning to understand their customers," said Walker. "The fact that the SOE does not want hacked and it could be a continuing black mark on their reputation. Frankly, I do not know what to do, but they can see how Apple treated the iPhone 4 debacle antenna."
(Geek Out! Contacting Sony for comment on this article, but as of this publishing company will not respond. However, they responded with a letter to Congress.)
When the PlayStation Network will be back online, it will come slowly, not all at once.
Sony will also launch a "Welcome Back" to encourage customers to renew, with the PlayStation Network. Early signs that Sony's premium service existing customers of PSN, PlayStation Plus, enter for 30 days. More PlayStation Current clients can also 30 days free.
Tina Tynda, founder of the girls on the game, do not need tickets.
She said, stick it on PSN, because no matter how much they open network firewall, it will always be a degree of vulnerability.
"Non-personal information stored online is never 100% sure if someone wants it bad enough. I'm still a fan of Sony's PlayStation Network, though," she said. "I never had the 'Red Ring of Death" on my PS3. "
