Sony fined $377,000 for PlayStation breach

By Dan Raywood on Jan 25, 2013 6:51AM

Privacy commissioner says Sony should have patched.

Sony has been fined £250,000 ($A377,000) for a breach of its Playstation Network last year that exposed private user data. The British Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the exposure of users' names, addresses, email addresses and passwords could have been prevented if ...

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