Defrauding Massive Online Network of Video Games on Sony Corp

Sony Corp. suffered a massive break-ins on networking its online video game that makes stolen names, addresses and credit card data are likely to belong to 77 million owners of the networking account.

Reuters reported, burglary break-ins this as one of the largest in the history of internet security.

Sony said its PlayStation Network burglary on April 19, which finally urged the company to immediately block its online networking them.

Sony did not disclose these breaches to the public until this Wednesday that occurred several hours after the company launched its first tablet computers in Japan.

Electronics conglomerate that is the latest Japanese company that has been criticized for not immediately disclose to the public the bad news that happened to him.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. had already been criticized for its handling of the erroneous nature of the nuclear crisis following the devastating earthquake last March 11.

Last year, Toyota Motor Corp. has been criticized for lack of frank public on a massive scale, vehicle products.

An illegal and not authorized to have obtained the names, address, email address, date of birth, 'username', password, login, security problems (internet) and many more, said Sony in its PlayStation blog.

A spokesman for Sony said that it needs several days to roll out a forensic investigation of the burglary before the company knows it must have been stolen consumer data.

Blocking of PlayStation Network users make video games Sony "entertained" because no longer can buy and download games, or even play with his opponents on the Internet.

Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said that the burglary data it may be the biggest identity theft data information ever recorded.

Sony's stock price immediately rose by 0.5 cent on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at 2421 yen per share, but far below Nikei 225 index rising 1.5 percent.

Big Setbacks
Data break-ins this is a big setback for Japan's leading electronics manufacturers. Although sales of hardware and software is the global decline of video games, PlayStation performance remained steady and the mainstay of Sony.

Sony intends to use PlayStation games to lure consumers to buy his first tablet computer, which according to the company soon to be released this year by rival Apple iPad Inc. and Samsung Electronics to get rid of the position 2 tablet market.

Sony reveals, the kids who created his account by their parents also likely to participate burglarized. Sony says there is no evidence that the credit card number was stolen, but the company warned that possibility can not be ruled out.

"Outside of excessive warnings, we advise you that your credit card number and date daluwarsanya may have been obtained (the breaker)," said Sony.

Analysts say when Sony revealed the burglary, the company did not provide information about how user data can be stolen.

"This is a data break-ins huge," said Wedbush Securities analyst, Michael Pachter, an estimate Sony rake in 500 million U.S. dollars every year from the Playstation. "Problems faced by larger Sony is how hackers use the information that they obtained illegally?"

Sony said it has hired well-known network security company from outside the company to investigate this case. The company also revealed that PlayStation Network user account information and services Qriocity burglarized between 17 April and 19 April.

Paller said that Sony most likely not enough attention to security when developing software that operates the network. For the sake of hunting down new innovative products, network security is sometimes overlooked.

"They must rapidly innovate. That's the business model," said Paller. "The new software has some flaws in this matter. Therefore, innovation is exposing the error code in it."

He suspects the hackers have entered the network with the system administrator to take over from the PC, so they can access sensitive information about customers Sony. The hackers probably send an email message to the administrator that contains malicious software being downloaded to the PC user.

In the past hackers have stolen personal data on a large number of companies. In 2009, Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty to stealing tens of millions of credit card numbers by breaking into computer systems of companies like 7-Eleven Inc. and Target Co..

Sony says that its users can spread the warning to the owners of the account via credit berkartu companies credit card issuers already recommended this step. Sony promised to fix a number of service networks within a week.

The company declined to comment about whether they will cooperate with the authorities or others to investigate this case. But according to the New York Times, Sony has reported these data breaches to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to a Japanese company to ask for an explanation, why this company did not immediately notify users of the PlayStation.

This online network launched in the autumn of 2006 and offers games, music and movies to people who avid PlayStation. PlayStation has 77 million registered users and 20 March, according to a spokesman for Sony.