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Senator: Sony playing games with PlayStation outage
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A breach that’s kept Sony’s PlayStation Network offline for six days hasn’t just angered about 75 million online gamers — it’s peeved Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) too.
The senator fired off a letter to Sony on Tuesday to note he is “troubled by the failure” of the company to “immediately notify affected customers of the breach and to extend adequate financial data security protections.”
Sony’s PlayStation Network was shut down last Wednesday, and the company initially noted the service would return in “a day or two.” In the days to follow, however, Sony has only admitted its online gaming network did experience a significant “external intrusion.” The company has yet to detail how the breach occurred and whether consumers’ personal data has been affected.
The lack of answers hasn’t pleased Blumenthal. The former Connecticut attorney general noted in his letter that a breach of such magnitude “immediately raises concerns of data privacy, identity theft and other misuse of sensitive personal and financial data, such as names, email addresses and credit and debit card information.” |
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