Sony has
fined from British regulators of amount 250,000 pounds ($396,100) on
Thursday. It’s because Sony has not sufficient security methods to prevent
PlayStation Network from a cyber attack.
It was
attacked in April 2011 which targeted credit card information including names,
passwords of millions of users. That attack put their personal information at
risk.
Britain's
Information Commissioner's Office reprove the prevention methods. It said,” the
software is not good enough and is not up to date.” Even the passwords were not
secure by this software. It is a big problem for users because attackers can do
major illegal things by it without getting caught.
The deputy
commissioner and director of data protection, David smith said that the fine is
essential to prevent this kind of security breach in future. Sony has to pay
for it. This comes under the “serious breach of the Data Protection Act”. This is
a business and everyone should have known better. It is completely company’s
fault, because they know the technical knowledge and resources to keep the data
safe, he said.
He said,”
this is one of the most serious fault ever reported about the attack on
personal information to the data regulator”.
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