Sony Won't Appeal Fine Related to 2011 PSN Hack

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Sony dropped its appeal and will therefore have to pay a £250,000 fine issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office related to a massive data breach on PSN in April 2011. ICO issued the fine in January 2013, calling the hack a "serious breach of the Data Protection Act."

"After careful consideration we are withdrawing our appeal. This decision reflects our commitment to protect the confidentiality of our network security from disclosures in the course of the proceeding," a Sony representative told V3. "We continue to disagree with the decision on the merits."

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/13/sony-drops-appeal-for-ico-issued-2011-data-loss-fine/

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TomorrowLandPosted:

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-Wub I hope PS4 doesn't get hacked.

It's just as likely as the Xbox One getting hacked honestly. Sony has gotten their act together plus the PS3 was an easy target people don't realize Sony had a lot more things to deal with like their successful movie producing copmany the millions of products they make like TV's and what not they definitely dropped the ball but I think they've seen how big the gaming market has grown and i'm pretty sure they won't let anything happen now.
Ok Im going to take a moment from being neutral here and let you know that Microsoft developed the Xbox, Microsoft makes a lot of products..
Microsoft kickstarted the internet off when they started producing their own servers which are now the if not one of the most used servers in the world. A whole lot less chance of being breached. They started the internet.

neboPosted:

TomorrowLand 250,000 is nothing to them so course they will pay it


I don't know.... 250,000 would be a lot to anybody, wouldn't you think?

DawPosted:

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daw Is this when PSN was down for like a week ?


it was like a month
Don't forgot the 24000 credit cards that were compromised.


Yeah I remember all my friends about to kill themselves because It was down. Sony almost cost some lives o.O

TomorrowLandPosted:

xAppze Everyone is hacking companies now a days
Except this was nearly 3 years ago.

AppzePosted:

Everyone is hacking companies now a days

VoyboyPosted:

Fuzzeh_X
-Wub I hope PS4 doesn't get hacked.

It's just as likely as the Xbox One getting hacked honestly. Sony has gotten their act together plus the PS3 was an easy target people don't realize Sony had a lot more things to deal with like their successful movie producing copmany the millions of products they make like TV's and what not they definitely dropped the ball but I think they've seen how big the gaming market has grown and i'm pretty sure they won't let anything happen now.
Ok Im going to take a moment from being neutral here and let you know that Microsoft developed the Xbox, Microsoft makes a lot of products..

Fuzzeh_XPosted:

-Wub I hope PS4 doesn't get hacked.

It's just as likely as the Xbox One getting hacked honestly. Sony has gotten their act together plus the PS3 was an easy target people don't realize Sony had a lot more things to deal with like their successful movie producing copmany the millions of products they make like TV's and what not they definitely dropped the ball but I think they've seen how big the gaming market has grown and i'm pretty sure they won't let anything happen now.

TBNRPosted:

@ -Wub i hope aswell but im still debating about getting the xbox one or the ps4...

WubsPosted:

I hope PS4 doesn't get hacked.

AyrPosted:

TomorrowLand 250,000 is nothing to them so course they will pay it


250,000 is a huge number for anyone. Believe it or not, it does set the company back slightly.
And that's not the only issue, it's also the companies image that has been damaged now.
There's numerous things that companies have to take I go account when they get hit with fines, not just the cost.


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