AFP - Hackers attacked the Canadian website eShop of Sony Ericsson, affecting 2,000 users, the most recent strike online against the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant, a Sony spokesman said Wednesday.
The new violation of security follows a massive theft of personal data of Sony PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment services, including names, passwords, and addresses of over 100 million accounts.
And on Tuesday, Sony said its Web sites in the three countries had been hacked with 8 500 accounts Greek user compromised, while the sites Thailand and Indonesia have also been affected.
The most recent attack - targeting the mobile phone joint venture between Sony and Ericsson the Sweden - was discovered on Tuesday local time, and the Web site has been closed, a Sony spokesman told AFP.
"The site Web of Sony Ericsson to the Canada, which publishes its products, has been hacked," affecting the 2,000 people, he told AFP.
"Their personal information were posted on a website called"the hacker news"". The information includes the registered names, email addresses and encrypted password. "But it does not include credit card information."
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The series of violations damaged Sony brand image and undermined its efforts to link its gadgets to a network of "cloud-based" online games, movies and music based on the confidence of consumers in their security.
Japanese entertainment and technology giant of said data drawn from Greek accounts included the addresses of e-mail, phone numbers, names and passwords but that credit card data had not been stolen in the latest attacks.
Sony has said it also discovered Saturday a page on its site in Indonesian music entertainment had been "amended" but did not believe that he was the leak of information.
Monday, Sony said it should post a net loss of 3.2 billion for the fiscal year ended March that he is trying to recover from the impact of the earthquake on March 11 and tsunami, which devastated production and damaged facilities.
He said that the violation of data will cause at least a 170 million hit in "currently known costs" in operating profit this financial year in terms of insurance and damages, but expected additional costs.
Sony said it plans to fully restore PlayStation Network and Qriocity services at the end of the month.
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