Sony Online Entertainment Sony closes after detecting illegal intrusion into the platform (Updated)

Sony does not lift his head. And is that all experienced disaster last week with its PlayStation Network that resulted in the temporary closure of the service in the last hours the company has also closed the platform Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) after detecting illegal intrusions was the same as informed the company itself via brief statement of prey .

Specifically, in this case different personal information of 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen along with financial data from a database obsolete since 2007 between what might be 12,700 credit card numbers and about 10,700 account records bank customers in Spain, Germany, Holland and Austria.

In detail the company's Japan has indicated that Sony Online Entertainment intrusion occurred between 16 and 17 April, they have already undertaken a thorough investigation and that the personal information of approximately 24.6 million accounts SOE could have been stolen consists of name, address, email address, date of birth, gender, phone number, username and password in the platform. On the other hand in the case of the 10,700 records consist of information stolen bank account number, customer name, account name and address of the client.

Finally Sony also says the press release that will restore service as soon as possible, which are committed "to helping customers protect their personal data" and soon "Further details will be available in each region."

Update: Sony has confirmed that among those affected, there are 174 Spanish users. Of these in 114 cases the information has been stolen credit card information and debit and the remaining 60 has been stolen bank account information.

Sony Online Entertainment Sony closes after detecting illegal intrusion into the platform (Updated) written in ALT1040 on 3 May, 2011 by elias
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