A month after Sony's PlayStation Network was breached and subsequently shut down, the Japan based company's security woes continue. It all began last month on April 20 when the PSN was breached by a group of hackers who stole millions of names, addresses, and credit card information from online users.
Since the initial breach last month which has been dubbed "The Great PlayStation Network Outage" Sony has continued to battle with hackers who have targeted different branches of the company's infrastructure. While the PlayStation Network was still down earlier this month Sony Online Entertainment also suffered the same type of attack. SOE which is the company's online PC gaming network which host games such as "Star Wars Galaxies", "EverQuest", "DC Universe Online", and many more was forced to shut down for two weeks after customers' personal information had been compromised.
Most recently Sony's security has been breached outside of their gaming networks. Earlier this week Sony revealed that 8,500 Greek users personal information had been stolen along with sites stationed in Thailand and Indonesia. Today the company's most recent breach involved a Canadian Sony Ericsson music website, which forced the site to shut down after 2,000 people's names, e-mail addresses, and passwords were stolen and published on a hacking news website.
As of right now Sony is proving to be unable to protect their customers' personal information that they have entrusted them with. This lack of trust shows in the decline of Sony's stock price since the breaches began and will more than likely have an even more damaging effect when the company's earnings for this quarter are released.
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