JAPAN: Sony apologises for massive theft of personal information from 78 million PlayStation user accounts

Record ID: 451662

  • Title: JAPAN: Sony apologises for massive theft of personal information from 78 million PlayStation user accounts
  • Date: 2nd May 2011
  • Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (MAY 1, 2011) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF SONY CORP TOKYO HEADQUARTER SONY LOGO SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT KAZUO HIRAI WALKING INTO NEWS CONFERENCE HIRAI AND SONY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS STANDING ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) PRESIDENT AND GROUP CEO OF SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, KAZUO HIRAI, SAYING: "We deeply apologize for giving a great amount of uneasiness and inconvenience to our users. We're truly sorry." PHOTOGRAPHER HIRAI AND SONY OFFICIALS TAKING SEATS ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) PRESIDENT AND GROUP CEO OF SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, KAZUO HIRAI, SAYING: "We will implement an upgrade of the system software of PlayStation 3. Through this process, all our users will renew their passwords for their PlayStation Network accounts though I know this is a great inconvenience to them." VARIOUS OF HIRAI JOURNALIST TAKING NOTES (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) PRESIDENT AND GROUP CEO OF SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT, KAZUO HIRAI, SAYING: "We were not at the stage with enough firm information to inform our users about the data breach at that time, though we were on the next day. The earliest we could announce the incident was on the following day at the unveiling our tablet PC." HIRAI AND SONY OFFICIALS STANDING UP AND BOWING
  • Embargoed: 17th May 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Japan, Japan
  • Country: Japan
  • Topics: Industry,Science / Technology
  • Reuters ID: LVAEC761J0YAWU391MIAZ13EM3M3
  • Story Text: Sony apologises for massive PlayStation data breach.
    Sony apologises for massive theft of personal information from 78 million PlayStation user accounts.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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