Another 93,000 Sony accounts hacked

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/13/2011 09:52 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Sony announced hackers have breached about 60,000 PlayStation Network accounts as well as 33,000 Sony Entertainment accounts. According to details released by Sony Chief Information Security Officer Philip Reitinger, hackers obtained a large amount of user data from other companies or websites, and used a brute-force attack to hack the Sony accounts:

According to Sony, the hackers obtained a large amount of user data from other companies or websites. The hackers were attempting to sign-in to numerous accounts using ID and password pairs, and while the

Related Stories

Another dual-GPU Fermi card spotted - 03/10/2011 05:36 PM
Engadget stumbled into what they think is a dual-GPU NVIDIA GeForce product that never made it. We believe the story is different. Below you can see photo's of a dual-GPU solution based on two GF104 c...

Another MSI X58 mobo in the works - 07/05/2010 09:09 AM
MSI has reportedly been working on the so-called X58A-GD65, whoch would be a more affordable X58 moptherboard, yet with USB 3.0 and SATA 6G. The board comes with 'just' three PCI Express slots, has su...

OCZ unleashes yet another SSD the Solid 2 - 08/12/2009 09:30 AM
OCZ Technology unveiled the OCZ Solid 2 SATA II 2.5

AMD Cuts Another 500 Jobs to Save Costs - 11/06/2008 10:50 AM
Advanced Micro Devices, which has been struggling to regain its financial standings for nearly two years, announced that it would cut another 500 jobs as its looks to

AMD messes up another launch - 4870 X2 - 07/14/2008 08:45 AM
As you guys have noticed, there's a number of Radeon HD 4870 X2 reviews out on the web. Much like the Radeon