Sony Online Hit By Second Hack Attack

Sony admits another hacker attack and that 24.6 million user accounts were compromised.
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Last week we wrote about the continued fallout from the hacker attack on the Sony Playstation Network.  Sony has now admitted that hackers broke into its servers on April 16 and 17 and may have stolen personal user data. This time, hackers targeted the accounts of Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) users; according to Sony.

The personal data from the SOE accounts includes name, address, email address, birth date, gender, phone number, login name and hashed password. The data from the 10,700 debit card records that may have been stolen by hackers includes bank account number, customer name, account name and customer address. Read more from Mashable.

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