2:00 JST: It's begun -- following a little bit of Mozart, Sony has trotted out three solemn-looking executives.
2:02 JST: Kaz Hirai and follow bow deeply, giving apologies. They plan to discuss corporate strategy in five points.
2:05 JST: On April 20, JST, says Sony, they were first alerted to unauthorized access.
2:06 JST: The first experts brought in determined it was a highly skilled intruder, so Sony brought in a second security firm to determine what had happened.
2:06 JST: Then, they emailed customers and published warning information. So far, so good.
2:08 JST: Yeah, lots of information was potentially stolen. "No evidence that credit card numbers, expiration dates or billing addresses" were stolen, though, according to the livestream translation.
2:09 JST: They haven't confirmed any cases of credit card fraud so far, and will let us know when they have more information. Sounds like they just don't know yet.
2:10 JST: There's a diagram up -- attackers accessed a database using a tool of some sort. The Japanese translation here isn't technical enough to tell us what.
2:12 JST: Kaz says there will be new security measures to prevent this sort of hack in future. New data center, moved from San Diego to a new location with "more advanced security." Enhanced detection capabilities, automated software monitoring, enhanced levels of data encryption, enhanced everything. Additional firewalls. Sony's creating an Chief Information Security Officer to handle these preparations in future. Good to know.
2:14 JST: There will be an additional sign-on security measure of some sort, but Sony's also asking customers to be vigilant and check their credit card statements. Sounds like they're worried about fraud after all. They're asking customers to change all their passwords too, and change all passwords used on other websites that happen to be the same as the PSN ones.
Read more here http://www.thegamingpod.com/forum/showthread.php/284-Live-blog-from-Sony-press-release-with-pictures?p=734#post734
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Today the World Wide Web is not just a network, it is like a wild world full of dangerous places and creatures (I mean hackers) that can attack you when you don’t expect it. The different ways to protect yourself and your repository of important data so-called virtual data room that is believed to keep everything in safe. Thanks to the author for such a nice post.
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