Sony Won't Appeal Fine Related to 2011 PSN Hack

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Sony dropped its appeal and will therefore have to pay a £250,000 fine issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office related to a massive data breach on PSN in April 2011. ICO issued the fine in January 2013, calling the hack a "serious breach of the Data Protection Act."

"After careful consideration we are withdrawing our appeal. This decision reflects our commitment to protect the confidentiality of our network security from disclosures in the course of the proceeding," a Sony representative told V3. "We continue to disagree with the decision on the merits."

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/13/sony-drops-appeal-for-ico-issued-2011-data-loss-fine/

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RuinsPosted:

Disastress lol 250k. sony doesnt care.


you can do a lot with 250k though...

MarluxiaPosted:

lol 250k. sony doesnt care.

gowaddictPosted:

lol 250k sony will poop that out.

RuinsPosted:

L33t-Ninja-Much pshhhht 250.000 aint nothing for sony


i know right?

gorillaPosted:

lol sony is a lazy company go microsoft.

L33t-Ninja-MuchPosted:

pshhhht 250.000 aint nothing for sony

Fuzzeh_XPosted:

Kerrigan
Fuzzeh_X
KarmaRambo
Fuzzeh_X
-Wub I hope PS4 doesn't get hacked.

It's just as likely as the Xbox One getting hacked honestly. Sony has gotten their act together plus the PS3 was an easy target people don't realize Sony had a lot more things to deal with like their successful movie producing copmany the millions of products they make like TV's and what not they definitely dropped the ball but I think they've seen how big the gaming market has grown and i'm pretty sure they won't let anything happen now.


May I remind you that SONY have seperate departments for each of these products the produce? It's not as if one team runs the entire production of products.
One team had a job of securing PSN and the information it withheld, it's got nothing to do with the movies from SONY or TV's. The team that are designated to PSN security didn't to their job correctly, or they're just not as good as people who want to undo their work.
May I remind you it costs money to have huge departments dedicated to securing PSN and obviously Sony didn't think the income would be worth it in the games market so it was probably the last of their worries. If they would've had a better security team for PSN stuff wouldn't of happened that way but they obviously didn't put money into said huge security team for that department. Things change and i'm sure there ready to handle everything fine now.


So?
Google runs the search engine, creates new lines of products, works on Android and chromebooks. I've never heard of a breach of data.

Microsoft does a lot more then just the Xbox, etc.

It's not an excuse.
I'm not saying it is i'm saying Sony **** up in no way am I trying to justify what Sony did it's sad that i'm having to spell it out for you to be honest i'm saying Sony was being lazy but I have high expectations for the PS4 on the other hand. Also idc how much stuff MS is busy doing they did a good job on the 360 that's a given, but honestly they don't have much going on.

EverPosted:

xAppze why cant hackers do something else


Thats what they are, hackers, so they hacked Playstation.

AppzePosted:

why cant hackers do something else

ExoticWolfsPosted:

SAGE
Kerrigan
Fuzzeh_X
KarmaRambo
Fuzzeh_X
-Wub I hope PS4 doesn't get hacked.

It's just as likely as the Xbox One getting hacked honestly. Sony has gotten their act together plus the PS3 was an easy target people don't realize Sony had a lot more things to deal with like their successful movie producing copmany the millions of products they make like TV's and what not they definitely dropped the ball but I think they've seen how big the gaming market has grown and i'm pretty sure they won't let anything happen now.


May I remind you that SONY have seperate departments for each of these products the produce? It's not as if one team runs the entire production of products.
One team had a job of securing PSN and the information it withheld, it's got nothing to do with the movies from SONY or TV's. The team that are designated to PSN security didn't to their job correctly, or they're just not as good as people who want to undo their work.
May I remind you it costs money to have huge departments dedicated to securing PSN and obviously Sony didn't think the income would be worth it in the games market so it was probably the last of their worries. If they would've had a better security team for PSN stuff wouldn't of happened that way but they obviously didn't put money into said huge security team for that department. Things change and i'm sure there ready to handle everything fine now.


So?
Google runs the search engine, creates new lines of products, works on Android and chromebooks. I've never heard of a breach of data.

Microsoft does a lot more then just the Xbox, etc.

It's not an excuse.


O think when ttg post "Xbox live down they are looking into it" means they got hacked and they can fix it but they wont admit to themself being hacked and everyone thinks its lag or some crap.


Maybe because it wasn't even down for a day, not even an hour. It is nothing big, whether they got hacked or not, it wasn't down for long.