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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LyquPosted:

That's a huge loss for sony, considering they're already barely making a profit on the PS3's currently, I'd say the PS3 was quiet a failure in the end for them.

generalhunterPosted:

kal45
generalhunter Only 250,000 GBP charge them 250 Million


Why would they do that, it would bankrupt the company. "Sorry I forgot you were an Xbox fan boy"


Nope I play on PC

LeapPosted:

Anticipate Lol at sonys security.


Its horrible hahaha

LikeCrazyPosted:

PSN was down for a month and peoples bank accounts and psn accounts were lost and only 250k? :/

kal45Posted:

generalhunter Only 250,000 GBP charge them 250 Million


Why would they do that, it would bankrupt the company. "Sorry I forgot you were an Xbox fan boy"

WageringPosted:

Why would they do this...

AyrPosted:

HoytVolker
Jordan355
Chicago_Bears Glad to hear that i have a friend who was apart of that.


No you don't, you have a friend that says "I'm part of anonymoos btw omfg i'm leet hacker i helped hack sony man ofmgfg" and you're just gullible and believe what he says.


Anyone can be a part of anonymous you idiot...


You clearly don't understand what anonymous really are. They weren't made up of edgy 13 year olds, they consisted of security experts and computer geniuses who understood how websites worked as a whole.

xSlinKsZPosted:

thats it? they need to be fined WAY more

generalhunterPosted:

Only 250,000 GBP charge them 250 Million

Jordan355Posted:

HoytVolker
Jordan355
Chicago_Bears Glad to hear that i have a friend who was apart of that.


No you don't, you have a friend that says "I'm part of anonymoos btw omfg i'm leet hacker i helped hack sony man ofmgfg" and you're just gullible and believe what he says.


Anyone can be a part of anonymous you idiot...


I never said you couldn't, I was saying I highly doubt his friend was involved in the PSN hack, let me guess, you were involved in it too?


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