Hacker broke into Sony , 77 million Playstation Network Accounts data stolen

Sony has revealed that 10 million credit card accounts may have been exposed two weeks ago when a hacker broke into the company's computers in San Diego and stole data from 77 million PlayStation Network accounts.

Sony last week said it had encrypted credit card data, but not other account information, including names, addresses, email addresses and birth dates.

The break-in, which occurred between April 17 and April 19 but was not disclosed until April 25, drew furor from U.S. lawmakers, who last week demanded more information from Sony about the intrusion and why the company took a week before notifying its customers.

Sony has maintained that the company acted as quickly as it could to ascertain the nature of the break-in, hire security experts and assess the scope of the damage. During the news conference, Hirai offered a time line of the events, saying the company was notified of the intrusion on April 19 and shut down the service on April 20 to investigate. It hired three firms to conduct a forensic analysis of its computers.

Source : http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/05/sony-apologizes-says-10-million-credit-card-accounts-may-have-been-exposed-in-network-attack.html