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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

FSU: Reaction to Industry News - The Sony Fiasco

Sony has been in the news quite a bit over the last few weeks. First, their PlayStation Network was hacked, and 77 million accounts had personal data stolen. Sony was quiet about the situation for a week before finally telling their customers what happened. Then, Sony Online Entertainment was hacked, and 24.6 million more accounts had personal data stolen. Again, Sony kept quiet for a while before explaining the situation. In the meantime, the entire network was down for 3½ weeks.