Sony Hacked!!!

In May of 2011 Sony online entertainment was hacked and the personal information of more than 100 million users was compromised. I know of this first hand because I was there! At the time of the hacking/attack on Sony online entertainment I was a current subscriber to Everquest, one of Sony's most popular online worlds.
I remember searching the web each day for updates and trying to figure out when the games would be back online and ready to play. This became an everyday routine for over a month before Sony was back online.
One of the web sites that I have back- tracked this information from was Fox news, here is an excerpt from their story on the hackings.
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Hard as it may be to believe, Sony has been hacked yet again.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, So-net Entertainment Corp., a Japanese ISP owned by the technology giant, said that hackers accessed its customer rewards site earlier this week and stole customers' redeemable gift points worth about $1,225.
The incident is the latest in a weeks-long string of hacks and breaches of security for Sony. The trouble began on April 19, when the company began investigating and ultimately discovered a massive breach of security on its PlayStation Network, a cyberscandal that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million users.
The PlayStation.com website was the target of later attacks, and on Thursday, the company took down a password-reset page it had built following the discovery of a "URL exploit" that the company insisted was not another hack.
A Sony spokesman said that the incident at So-net was most likely unrelated to the other assaults.
"Although we can't completely rule out the possibility that there is a connection with the PSN issue, the likelihood is low," Keisuke Watabe, a spokesman at So-net Entertainment, told the Wall Street Journal. He said it was unlikely because the method of intrusion used was so different."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/05/20/sony-hacked-playstation-so-net-isp/#ixzz252N6mvem
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/05/sony-online-entertainment-hack/