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The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.
On January 30, 2007, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Sony BMG on charges that the CD copy protection had violated federal law [41] —Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 USC 45(a)—by engaging in unfair and deceptive business practices. [42]
Sony also threatened legal action if the media did not comply, but according to law professor Eugene Volokh, Sony's legal threats are "unlikely to prevail". [118] Sony then threatened legal action against Twitter if it did not suspend accounts of people who posted the hacked material. [ 119 ]
A stolen check can only tell you so much, though. It doesn't provide a date of birth or Social Security number — crucial personal data needed to create a fake driver's license or passport.
Ciera Frazier, the owner of local credit firm Frazier Consulting Services, said she hears of breaches "at least once a week," and hackers don't always use stolen data the way people might expect.
Thieves take a digital picture of a stolen check and use commercially available software to alter it. Then they print a new phony check or deposit the altered image using a bank’s mobile app ...
In an act of hacktivism, Anonymous announced their intent to attack Sony websites in response to Sony's lawsuit and, specifically due to Sony's gaining access to the IP addresses of all the people who visited geohot's blog, terming it an 'offense against free speech and internet freedom'. [13]
If you suspect a financial account has been hacked, change your password immediately and request a change of account, card numbers or PINs. Check your credit report – If a hacker sets up a new ...