Sony has been hacked again, with hackers breaking into Sony Corp’s computer networks and accessing the information of more than 1 million customers. This is the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company. LulzSec, a group that claims attacks on PBS television and Fox.com, said it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites, publishing the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony. The security breach is the latest cyber attack against high-profile firms, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Google Inc.
Sony has been under fire since hackers accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 percent of which are users in North America or Europe. After a long nightmare that began in late April, Sony has only recently started to fully restore the PlayStation Network, bringing back all services for U.S. and European game users. As of early last week, the company began to bring back the PlayStation Store in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Asia. The store and some other services are still down in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea. Those territories will be restored at a later time. Sony has also recently brought back Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity, as well as the PSN, which has 77 million registered users. Since recovering from the cyber-attack, Sony has released a bunch of new content on the PlayStation Store, after the outage delayed the a lot of planned game releases. Among the content launching from the company are: US Navy SEALs, Sonic the Hedgehog, Killzone 3, Motorstorm Apocalypse, Resident Evil 5, Streetfighter 2 and a bunch of other titles.
With this latest security breach, Sony customers all over the world have a right to wonder whether or not Sony will ever be able to lock down their private information.
