Yesterday, Sony said it would answer a list of detailed questions presented by a US Congressional subcommittee looking into the PlayStation Network outage and data leak. Today, the company offered up its answers, which gave a detailed timeline of the data breach and subsequent downtime resulting from the cyberattack. Unfortunately, one of the responses confirmed the worst-case scenario--that all 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity service accounts had data stolen from them.
In a letter sent to the subcommittee--which can be viewed in its entirety here--Sony Computer Entertainment America chairman and Sony Corp. executive vice president Kaz Hirai offered a detailed timeline of the aforementioned attack. The saga began at 4:15 p.m. PDT on April 19, when employees of Sony Network Entertainment America, which took over PSN operations in March, noticed that "certain systems were rebooting when they were not scheduled to do so."...
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