Friday 6 May 2011

Sony CEO Howard Stringer the first to apologize for PS Network hacking


According to foreign media reports, Sony laptop battery CEO Howard Stringer (Howard Stringer) today for the first time on the PlayStation network intrusion incident to the public apology. Meanwhile, the Sony spokesman said the company will be to those exposed in the event of personal information users provide identity theft monitoring services.

Sony CEO Howard Stringer, the PlayStation blog today published an open letter, the letter said, "As a company, we, including myself, to bring this incident to the general user apologize for the inconvenience and worry. Now Our professional team are Kazuo Hirai (Kazuo Hirai), under the leadership of our day and night to fully restore service to allow users around the world as soon as possible and safe re-use of these services. "

Sony laptop battery CEO Howard Stringer is the first public apology to the user. Previously, Sony responsible for the safety of the highest level of invasion has been the number two executive Kazuo Hirai. This allows the user was very curious why Sony CEO remained silent? Many users and members of Congress also issued a challenge: why Sony delayed so long to inform users that their personal information may be stolen? Stringer today responded to this letter.

"This issue was raised more reasonable." He wrote, "We were found hacked to immediately close the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music services, and employs some of the top in the field of technical experts to diagnose what is happening . I thought we would soon find out, but did not expect the technical analysis of the process is very complex, and particularly time-consuming. Furthermore, hackers are also trying to cover up their whereabouts. Our experts spend a lot of effort to found a big Some clues, and identify what personal information is stolen and what did not. "

Sony laptop battery spokesman Patrick - Hebbard (Patrick Seybold), wrote in his blog, Sony has contracted with Debix Identity Protection Company, prior to the event in the PlayStation Network or Qriocity up music offering free service called the United States AllClear ID Plus the identity theft monitoring services.

Stringer emphasized that Sony provides users with identity theft monitoring program includes a "value of $ 1,000,000 in identity theft insurance policy." In the next few days, the user can activate an e-mail they receive to participate in the program. Up time will be continued until June 18.

Sony laptop battery said the program is only for U.S. users, and it is considering for other countries and Qriocity PSN music service users with similar programs. However, Sony has not mentioned the stolen personal information as Sony Online Entertainment (Sony Online Entertainment) The user will also enjoy a similar plan.

Sony says they still do not know, who two weeks ago, orchestrated the "premeditated and technical content of the" attacks, and cause it to over 100 million users of data theft. Currently, the company is still working to fix their servers, so that music services PlayStation Network and Qriocity back online. Sony said today that the company has entered the "final stages of internal testing," will resume service shortly.

Sony said last week that they are brewing the user's way of compensation, but today, Sony did not release further information on this. Sony laptop battery last week said they will be affected by the attack in the Sony user identity theft monitoring services, in addition, they will also be available for download free of charge and 30 days of PlayStation Plus paid service. Qriocity music service users will also be a period of 30 days of free service.

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From: http://www.freewindowssoft.info/

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