Sony's History of Data Breaches

Sony security breaches mount as employee data confirmed stolen

In 2011, a large hack compromised millions of PlayStation Network accounts, exposing personal information that was associated with them. The ...

Sony Faces Lawsuits After Data Breach - Risk Management Magazine

In 2011, a hack to Sony's PlayStation Network exposed names, addresses and credit card data connected to 77 million user accounts.

Sony Hack: A Timeline - Deadline

Calling themselves “Guardians of Peace,” the hackers have obtained some 100 terabytes of data stolen from Sony servers. To put that into ...

2011 PlayStation Network outage - Wikipedia

"External intrusion", data breach · PlayStation Network and Qriocity services · Services restored after 23 days of downtime, with compensation offered to PSN ...

Sony confirms data breach, here's how hackers got into company's ...

Sony has confirmed a data breach that affected approximately 6800 individuals, including current and former employees and their family ...

Massive Security Breach At Sony -- Here's What You Need To Know

Last week Sony admitted to having suffered a major cybersecurity breach; hackers not only erased data from its systems, but also stole, ...

The 2011 PlayStation Network Hack – What Actually Happened?

Sony Online Entertainment had services because of this breach. In June of 2011, hackers had also taken down yet another Sony network. This time, ...

Has Sony been hacked again? - Help Net Security

Its PlayStation Network (PSN) was breached in 2011 and the personal information and passwords of 70 million users was compromised. That breach ...

The 2014 Sony hacks, explained | Vox

Then the leaks started. Over the course of several weeks, the hackers posted several waves of files stolen from Sony's computers. The hackers ...

Sony Confirms Data Breach Impacted Nearly 7,000 Current ... - IGN

As reported by Bleeping Computer, Sony has now informed employees of its Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) division whose data was exposed.

Sony Cyber Attack One of Worst in Corporate History - Newsweek

The initial data breach, which occurred on 24th November, resulted in the shutdown of the entire computer network of one of Hollywood's largest ...

Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don't Know So Far

As so often happens with breach stories, the more time that passes the more we learn about the nature of the hack, the data that was stolen and, ...

Security leaders discuss implications as Sony investigates recent ...

I say in theory as, if it is PII, the breach has happened regardless if the information is returned. Most data regulators will not take “thieves ...

Case study: Sony, Zurich and the PlayStation data breach - Lexology

The hacking incident resulted in the theft of personal details from approximately 77 million accounts and forced Sony to shut off its ...

Sony pays up to $8m over employees' hacked data - BBC News

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The 10 Most Expensive Data Breaches in Corporate History - Firmex

Cleanup and data recovery have cost Sony $100 million. 8. Anthem – $100 Million. Health insurer Anthem's cloud storage was hit hard in February of 2015. A cyber ...

Sony PlayStation suffers massive data breach - Reuters

Sony suffered a massive breach in its video game online network that led to the theft of names, addresses and possibly credit card data ...

Sony Reels From Massive Customer Data Breach - Dark Reading

And, in a warning to companies that don't have solid data-deletion practices, Sony said hackers may have nabbed some credit card data from "an outdated database ...

PlayStation Network hackers access data of 77 million users

Sony said it discovered that between 17 and 19 April an "illegal and unauthorised person" got access to people's names, addresses, email address ...

Sony to Pay as Much as $8 Million to Settle Data-Breach Case

Former employees alleged the company knew it had inadequate measures in place to protect its data and suffered breaches twice before last year's ...