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New website answers the question on all our minds: Has Sony been hacked this week?

By: Zach Epstein |Jun 13th, 2011 at 08:45PM
Filed Under: General, Humor, SOE, Security, Sony, credit card numbers, credit cards

BGR has provided extensive coverage of an ongoing saga that has seen numerous digital properties belonging to Sony fall under attack. To date, personal information belonging to well over 100 million Sony customers has been compromised, and nearly 13 million credit card numbers have been stolen. For IT professionals or other tech enthusiasts with weak stomachs, we can understand if reading one story after another about Sony’s security woes might make you a bit queasy. As such, a new site launched recentl...

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Sony suffers another cyberattack

By: Zach Epstein |May 24th, 2011 at 06:00PM
Filed Under: Gaming, General, Greece, Security, Sony, Sony Greece, credit cards, personal data, personal information

Sony’s ongoing battle with cyberattacks has already left the personal data of over 100 million customers exposed, and now the company has fallen victim to yet another attack. Details are slim for the time being, but Reuters cites a report from Jiji news service in stating that roughly 8,500 people across three countries have been affected by this latest breach. Their personal information has been leaked as a result of an attack on Sony’s Greek website on Tuesday, though it is unclear exactly what ...

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Sony begins restoring PSN services

By: Todd Haselton |May 16th, 2011 at 06:30PM
Filed Under: Gaming, General, Security, Services, Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, credit cards, muiltiplayer, restored

Sony has announced that it’s starting to bring its services back online after a major security breach leaked the credit card data and personal information of over a hundred million users. The first step for Sony’s PlayStation Network members is a firmware update that’s been issued for the PlayStation 3. After applying the patch, PS3 users will be prompted to change their PSN passwords. “Please note that these services will take a bit of time to be turned on and rolled out to the ...

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Sony to restore access to PlayStation Network by May 31st

By: Todd Haselton |May 10th, 2011 at 01:31AM
Filed Under: Gaming, SOE, Security, Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, compromised, credit cards, personal data

Sony will access to its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services by May 31st, Bloomberg is reporting. Sony took its networks offline after a confirmed 101 million accounts were compromised and 12.3 million credit card numbers were stolen by hackers. Sony’s president, chairman, and CEO, Howard Stringer, has said Sony is “absolutely dedicated to restoring full and safe service as soon as possible,” and has promised users a “Welcome Back” package that includes a free month of its P...

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‘Anonymous’ denies involvement in Sony cyberattacks

By: Zach Epstein |May 5th, 2011 at 07:01PM
Filed Under: General, SOE, Security, Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, credit cards

In its response to a congressional inquiry over recent cyberattacks aimed at several of Sony’s online networks, the company on Wednesday claimed it possessed evidence of hacker activist group Anonymous’ involvement. Sony did state, however, that it could not be certain if Anonymous knowingly carried out Denial of Service attacks in order to facilitate the theft of customer data, or if the group was merely an unwitting pawn in a scheme carried out by more malicious attackers. Anonymous on Wednesday...

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Sony confirms SOE security breach, 25 million accounts compromised

By: Zach Epstein |May 3rd, 2011 at 07:44PM
Filed Under: SOE, Security, Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, compromised, credit cards, personal data

Following preliminary news of another major security breach, Sony confirmed late on Monday that its Sony Online Entertainment portal has been hacked and the personal data of its users has been compromised. Sony said the cyberattack took place on Sunday, and its online gaming portal was taken offline as an initial countermeasure. The company is currently working with the FBI to investigate the breach, which the company has confirmed may have exposed personal data associated with 25 million online accounts. So...

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Sony suffers another major security breach

By: Zach Epstein |May 3rd, 2011 at 01:23AM
Filed Under: Security, Sony, Sony Online Entertainment, credit cards

Nikkei.com on Monday reported that an online Sony gaming network has once again fallen victim to a cyberattack. This time, the attack may have exposed the credit card numbers of thousands of Sony customers from around the world. According to the report, over 12,700 customer credit card numbers were stolen during a breach of Sony’s online gaming network, Sony Online Entertainment. According to Nikkei.com, Sony discovered the possible attack on Sunday. Sony recently suffered a similar attack on its PlaySt...

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In-app billing launches on Android Market

By: Andrew Munchbach |Mar 30th, 2011 at 06:32AM
Filed Under: Android, Google, Levels, Software, credit cards, in-app billing, try-and-buy

Via a brief blog post, Google has announced the availability of in-app billing for Android Market applications. The new feature will allow application makers to publish apps that can facilitate future payments via Google’s Checkout system. “In-app Billing gives you more ways to monetize your apps with try-and-buy, virtual goods, upgrades, and other billing models,” writes Google. “If you aren’t yet familiar with In-app Billing, we encourage you to learn more about it.” The com...

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