How Sony Lost the Personal Information of its Gamers

On March 2, 2011, Sony Online Entertainment admitted that it fell victim to a second major breach of its data security for PC online games. Sony, a publisher of massively multiplayer online PC games like Free Realms, EverQuest, EverQuest II and others, acknowledged that hackers broke into its online game network and stole personal data of users. As many as 24.6 million accounts may have been compromised.

This comes on the heels of a previous hacker attack that brought down the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable systems. That attack exposed the personal information of 77 million registered users.

These hacks may very well represent on of the most significant digital thefts in history, as there is no word clear word as to the number of customer credit cards that may have been compromised.

(Click on the image below to view the infographic below to review the details of this heist.)

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