Cybersecurity
Sony Closes Online Division After Credit-Card Data Stolen
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Sony Online Entertainment, a maker of role-play video games, suspended service after discovering a hacker gained access to 23,400 credit card and debit records from non-U.S. customers.
The Sony Corp. division took its network down last night, according to an e-mailed statement today. The San Diego-based producer of multiplayer online games such as “EverQuest” and “DC Universe Online” said engineers and security consultants discovered “personal information from approximately 24.6 million SOE accounts may have been stolen.”