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Sony EU fined £250k for 2011 PSN Hack Jan 24th 2013, 09:42 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been fined £250,000 for 2011's PlayStation Network breach by the UK Information Commissioners Office. ICO is an independent authority tasked with looking after the information rights of the public. David Smith, deputy commisioner and director of Data Protection at ICO said that Sony "let everybody down", and that it was "the most serious breach we have had reported to us." ICO's report "found that the attack could have been prevented if the software had been up-to-date, while technical developments also meant passwords were not secure." The PSN was hacked occurred between 17-19 April, with Sony forced to shut down the service on April 20. The outage lasted for 24 days in total, with personal information being taken from the 77 million accounts. Continue reading…

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