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PlayStation

Somebody’s Trying To Break Into Your PSN Account…Again

Sony has just announced that it has detected someone trying to match “a massive set of sign-in IDs and passwords against our network database”.

September 29, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Didn’t Break The Law When Somebody Else Hacked Them

The law can be a strange beast sometimes. Take Sony and Australia, for example: earlier this year, when the PlayStation Network was hacked into, an investigation was launched targeting Sony, to see whether the company had broken Australian law.

September 2, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Says PSN Has Added Three Million Users Since Attack

Howard Stringer, the chief executive of Sony, said at a Berlin electronics show that the PlayStation Network has recovered from this spring’s attack and 23-day outage by adding three million new users in the three months since.

July 22, 2011
PlayStation

Wow, So, A Ton Of People Are Suing Sony

While Sony’s “Welcome Back” package smoothed over most people’s concerns following the PlayStation network attacks in April and May, not everyone is won over. Some are taking Sony to court. And when I say some, I mean many.

July 15, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Exec Calls PSN Hack ‘A Great Experience,’ Quickly Clarifies Himself

Losing the entire PlayStation Network service for 23 days and its online marketplace for more than a month is not many people’s idea of a good time. Nor is it Tim Schaff’s, though the Sony Network Entertainment boss called it “a great experience,” at a forum before, as the politicians say, he revised and extended his remarks.

July 10, 2011
PlayStation

PSN Extends Registration For Free ID Protection Until The End Of July

The time to collect your PlayStation Network welcome-back freebies has come and gone — twice, even — but Sony has extended one component. Registration for identity-theft protection will run through July 31, the company’s top spokesman said on PlayStation’s official blog.

June 28, 2011
PlayStation

Sony: 90% Of PSN Users Have Returned

At the Sony shareholders meeting today, the company said that 90 per cent of PSN users have returned since the service was hacked. Have you? [AV Watch Impress via はちま起稿]

PlayStation

Sony Says It Was Hacked Because It "Tried To Protect Its IP"

At a shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo today, Sony boss Sir Howard Stringer got up on stage and had to field questions about the recent PlayStation Network attacks, which resulted in one of the biggest thefts of personal details in the history of the internet.

June 24, 2011
PlayStation

Lawsuit Says Sony Laid Off Security Workers Before PSN Cyberattack

A new lawsuit alleges that Sony fired workers in its network security operations two weeks before a cyberattack brought down the PlayStation Network.

News

Xbox Live Chief: ‘We Don’t Want To Appear To Even Be Looking To Be Taking Advantage’ Of PSN Outage

In the throes of the 23-day PlayStation Network Outage, when people were vowing they’d sell their PS3s and go join Xbox Live, Microsoft’s most provocative comment was a low-key prediction that it would see more traffic on its service. Yesterday, though, Xbox’s senior executive finally said what’s bad for the goose is bad for the gander.

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