
Top PC games developer Valve has joined Sony in being subject to a catastrophic database hack, with the security of customer credit card details and personal information stored on their Steam platform completely compromised.
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Sony has officially announced the release of its PSP successor, the PlayStation Vita, formerly known as the NGP.
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Sony’s reputation as a computer security pygmy has deepened again, with the latest hack seeing it apparently lose a million user accounts to hackers.
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Sony is now releasing customer data to hackers on a daily basis – the company has suffered two additional hacks in short order.
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Sony’s weekly hack is out – this time another one of its regional sites has been hacked, with the culprits making off with a tasty database of personal data.
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Sony has been hacked yet again – this time its Japanese subsidiary ISP So-net has been robbed by hackers, with attackers successfully stealing loyalty points from customers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 19, 2011 06:22 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Bugs, Crime, Hacking, Internet, PS3, PSP, Sony, Technology

Sony’s PSN had barely been turned back on than it was yet again compromised – this time thanks to the astonishing oversight of requiring users to reset their passwords using the information which was already leaked to hackers.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 15, 2011 09:56 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Crime, Hacking, Internet, PC Gaming, PS3, PSP, Sony, Technology

Sony has finally restored PlayStation Network service after it was catastrophically hacked, with most of its previous functionality restored after nearly a month of downtime.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 10, 2011 02:03 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bugs, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Linux, PS3, Sony, Technology

Sony has finally offered a firm date for the restoration of PSN services – the end of May.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 7, 2011 21:52 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bugs, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Linux, PS3, Sony, Technology

The resumption of service for Sony’s ill-fated PSN has been officially delayed, with Sony now only saying it is aiming for “mid-May”; as if that were not enough, they have admitted leaking more customer data – this time by putting it in a spreadsheet on an unsecured public server for “hackers” to make off with.
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Sony has been accused of hosting it PlayStation Network on servers running out of date software with no firewalls, and of continuing to run them in this fashion even after being made aware of the problem.
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Sony has finally confirmed that all 77 million PSN accounts have been leaked to hackers, previously having maintained this was a “possibility,” and has revealed it found a calling card from “Anonymous” on a hacked server.
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