SONY Acknowledges Tens Of Millions Of Credit Card Information Or Leaks &Nbsp, Facing Sky High Claims.

Japan

Two weeks ago, SONY's PlayStation game network was hacked, stealing personal information from SONY PS3 and music Qriocity users, including names, addresses, birthdays, login names and passwords.

It is reported that up to 77 million users are affected, and 10 million of them have been stolen. Credit card accounts may be involved in 57 countries and regions.

According to US media reports, hackers suspected of stealing data began to discuss personal information on the Internet and claimed that they had obtained 2 million 200 thousand credit card information.

On the day of the press conference, SONY vice president Hirai Yifu bowed and apologized to the public at the press conference, saying that he would make a review to avoid the recurrence of the incident.

For why the delay notification users, Hirai responded that SONY must first understand the types of stolen information, before it can be released to the outside world.

In order to retain users, SONY promised to provide customers with 30 days of free download service, while updating the software system to enhance security level.

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SONY faces sky high price

According to Xinhua news agency, referring to past cases, SONY is hard to get rid of it all this time.

In 2004, about 4 million 600 thousand of YAHOO's personal information was released from Japan, and YAHOO later sent 500 yen (6 US dollars) shopping coupons to each user for an apology.

In 2009, life-insurance company, Japan's Alice, released 30 thousand customers' credit card information, and finally paid 10 thousand yen (123 US dollars) to each victim. At the same time, it paid 6 billion 700 million yen for the card replacement fee.

Kifuji Masaki, a lawyer familiar with Japan's Internet crime, said that according to the usual practice, if the leakage data is limited to basic information such as name and telephone, the amount of compensation will be 5000 yen to 10 thousand yen per person; if the information is disclosed, personal damages may be substantially increased.

Japanese cosmetic companies had been ordered to compensate 30 thousand yen for each customer due to customer information leakage.

According to this standard, the amount of compensation that SONY faces may reach 2 trillion yen (US $24 billion 500 million).