Sony fined £250k over 'preventable' PSN hack

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Sony is facing a £250,000 penalty for what is deemed a 'security failure' during the PlayStation Network hack that affected 77 million accounts in April 2011.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) stated that the attack was preventable, and that there was "no disguising that Sony is a business that should have known better".

Sony is now preparing an appeal, in order to reverse the ruling.

"PlayStation Europe notes that the ICO recognises Sony was the victim of 'a focused and determined criminal attack' and that 'there is no evidence that encrypted payment card details were accessed', and that 'personal data is unlikely to have been used for fraudulent purposes'."

Sony chief executive, Kaz Hirai apologized for the security breach one month after the attack brought the entire network down.

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ResolutePosted:

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FrenzyRG Im starting to hate sony. Cant wait for xbox 720 so I can get that instead.


Hate them for what? Your believing this sh*t that the media feeds to you ok it was maybe preventable if there was a future teller at their building that told them there would be a ddos attack thats the risk people take of putting there credit card on any platform stop being lazy and walk to the store and buy a ore paid card for your platform with the credit card you hate Sony for what? This wont even be affecting you it's not like your paying for the cost and XBL is not free for online


XBL isn't free but stop being such a cheap ass. Microsoft has better security. A WAAAY better chat system and can play original Xbox games, unlike the PS3 which can only play PS1 AND PS3 games. Oh and Xbox has DLC privileges too so we get any DLC first before you guys do. Maybe Sony will learn not to prosecute a college student for wanting to play PS2 games.


So your telling me you get EVERY DLC before those on PSN? That's not true the only DLC you get before PSN is the CoD DLC's. Well that's good a month earlier you should be so proud......



You're both idiots.

Saying any console is better than another is OPINIONATED.


Your an idiot I can prove that Xbox is better.


I lol'ed when I read this.

How you going to prove to someone that one console is better than another? It is opinions and it is just sad and pathetic how Xbox fanboys like you are so gullible and over your heads.

You can point out facts about the Xbox compare to PS3, but you have nothing to prove that it is better. You can think that Xbox is better, but that is pretty much about it.

And please don't come back and comment and say "Xbox has better graphics" or some ignorant statement like that. If you think Xbox is the best thing you ever seen graphically, then you really need to see the limelight and look at gaming on the PC. Because games on the Xbox is running on 7 year old hardware.

Fyi so you want call me a Xbox hater, I own all the 3 consoles. (Xbox, PS3, and Wii)

PlusnetPosted:

I remember when this happened. I don't think they should be sued that much though.

DankruptPosted:

VisionaryMGMT Sony fined for being hacked. Funny.


ng they didn't want to happen and they get the fine

VisionaryMGMTPosted:

Sony fined for being hacked. Funny.

SynybunPosted:

Maybe they won't let it happen again this time.

AhriPosted:

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FrenzyRG Im starting to hate sony. Cant wait for xbox 720 so I can get that instead.


Hate them for what? Your believing this sh*t that the media feeds to you ok it was maybe preventable if there was a future teller at their building that told them there would be a ddos attack thats the risk people take of putting there credit card on any platform stop being lazy and walk to the store and buy a ore paid card for your platform with the credit card you hate Sony for what? This wont even be affecting you it's not like your paying for the cost and XBL is not free for online


XBL isn't free but stop being such a cheap ass. Microsoft has better security. A WAAAY better chat system and can play original Xbox games, unlike the PS3 which can only play PS1 AND PS3 games. Oh and Xbox has DLC privileges too so we get any DLC first before you guys do. Maybe Sony will learn not to prosecute a college student for wanting to play PS2 games.


So your telling me you get EVERY DLC before those on PSN? That's not true the only DLC you get before PSN is the CoD DLC's. Well that's good a month earlier you should be so proud......



You're both idiots.

Saying any console is better than another is OPINIONATED.


Your an idiot I can prove that Xbox is better.


You're* idiot.

Go right ahead, prove some opinionated crap.

FlarezIproPosted:

people who just say like ps3 or xbox is better they just say it because thats what they own and tbh they are both the same basicly so you cant say what is better i prefer xboxs because of the controller but some people are just stupid

MoanPosted:

TTG_GTL Hopefuly some people will realise that xbox is better.


People should by now.

smarty693Posted:

everyone says psn shouldn't of been hacked, look at XBL the amount of JTag consoles out there and all these hacked lobbies and modded games, that's a rarity on the ps3, yea sure they got hacked into, lots of people do, its only because its a big company everybody's intrested. not saying eithers better, used to be a ps3 gamer but had more friends on 360 so i switched, still play ps3 too its just as much fun

uwantsumPosted:

Hopefuly some people will realise that xbox is better.


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