Sony has said today that it had removed from a specific website the names and partial addresses of 2,500 sweepstakes contestants that had been stolen by hackers, and as far as we know no credit card information was published at this site. The personal information that was published belonged to users that had entered a 2001 sweepstakes.
A Sony representative has said this about the downed website “The website was out of date and inactive when discovered as part of the continued attacks on Sony.” On Thursday Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer apologized about the “inconvenience” this whole PSN-hack has caused. Also, on Thursday Sony released information that detailed a 1 million dollar identity theft insurance plan for each of its North American users.
Sony, has been under fire since hackers accessed personal data from about 77 million user accounts of its PlayStation Network Service and it’s Qriocity services, and it would be fair to say that the company’s public image has taken a significant beating.
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