An extra 24.6 million computer game users may have had their personal details stolen by internet hackers after Sony revealed it had suffered a second major security breach in less than a month – this time to the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) PC games network.
The beleaguered electronics giant said the names, addresses, emails, birth dates, phone numbers and other information from PC games customers were stolen from its servers as well as an ‘outdated database’ from 2007.
In the newly discovered breach on SOE about 23,400 financial records from the 2007 database involving people outside the US may have been stolen, including 10,700 direct debit records of customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, Sony said.
The beleaguered electronics giant said the names, addresses, emails, birth dates, phone numbers and other information from PC games customers were stolen from its servers as well as an ‘outdated database’ from 2007.
In the newly discovered breach on SOE about 23,400 financial records from the 2007 database involving people outside the US may have been stolen, including 10,700 direct debit records of customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, Sony said.
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