Last week, Sony announced that 24.6 million names, addresses, e-mails, birth dates, phone numbers, potentially credit cards and other private information from Sony Online Entertainment accounts could have been taken from company servers or from an old database.
Last month, a hacker attack on the PlayStation Network may have caused the stealing of data from 77 million user accounts.
This totals over 100 million accounts that were potentially compromised. Each potentially affected customer will get $1 million in identity theft insurance.
Sony CEO, Howard Stringer, apologized for “inconvenience” and “concern” the data breach has caused. The company is working on restoring full and safe service as soon as possible. Stringer has a lot of brand mending to do as this breach is being referred to as one of the largest Internet security break-ins in history.
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