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Sony lost $450M last year – paid Stringer $4.5M + stock options |
Sony PlayStation gamers expressed shock and disappointment on Wednesday at a massive data hack in which their names, addresses and credit-card details might have been stolen from the PlayStation Network.
Shoppers at London video-games stores said they might leave the network, PSN, which allows them to play games with 77 million other members and buy games online, while some gamers writing in online forums called for a boycott of Sony products…
Sony warned earlier that unidentified hackers had stolen the personal details of its 77 million user accounts, in one of the biggest-ever Internet security break-ins.
The Japanese electronics giant advised users, almost 90 percent of whom are based in Europe and the United States, to change any common passwords they also used for other services.
It said children with accounts established by their parents might have had their data exposed.
“If you think the gamers are pissed over at playstation blog, wait until the Mums get wind of this,” wrote senior member barrybarryk on the PS3news.com online forum…
Sony pulled the plug on the network eight days ago but did not tell the public about the stolen data until Tuesday.
Consider that all the crap that’s happened at Sony from the closing of research centers to failed security to snooping on users has happened on Stringer’s watch.
Sony’s music label impeded the release of its MP3 player.
#13 GregAllen – Had an old Windows 2000 computer with a CD burner & Nero software and the 2004 Sony DVD player model right below the one that can play Super Audio CDs, SACDs. The computer had some Windows Media videos that I wanted to transfer. The Nero software suggested making a Video CD, VCD. I hadn’t heard of this format that could put almost 74 minutes of VIDEO on a CD. I burned a disc, put it into the DVD player, and the front LED screen showed VCD – which I never saw before. The disc played perfectly. Sony was great in writing the “books” Red, White, etc. for the digital optical disc formats.