Last week, many PlayStation users were wondering why they couldn't access Sony's PlayStation Network. In light of these events Sony announced that it had had a service outage and then an "external intrusion" duly missing out on the implications of this.
A couple of days ago Sony announced the potential ramifications of the breach noting
information exposed includes customer names; addresses; e-mail addresses; birthdays; PlayStation Network and Qriocity passwords and usernames; as well as online user handles.
Although there was no evidence that credit card information was stolen it is rumored that the hackers were looking to sell their database of information including a list of millions of credit card numbers.
We all rely on the security of these big organisations to keep our personal information safe. Only recently Vodafone has had several technical breaches from internal staff. Could these events severely affect the reputation of Sony?
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