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1. How Hackers Potentially Stole 77 Million
User’s Credit Card Details From Sony

2. How Bad Is It?
Countries Most Affected:
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United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Europe
Australia

3. Timeline of Events
 February
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4. Timeline of Events
 April
Apr. 17, Sunday
25 million customers’ information exposed.
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Apr. 19, Tuesday
Sony discovers there has been “an intrusion” into the
Playstation network.

5. Timeline of Events
 April
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Apr. 21, Thursday
Seybold: Sony is “investigating the
cause of the Network outage”.

6. Timeline of Events
 April
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Apr. 26, Tuesday
77 million PlayStation
network accounts
compromised. Sony took 7
days to notify PSN
customers of security
breach.

7. Timeline of Events
 April
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Apr. 27, Wednesday
Media stories, lawsuits and threats
directed at Sony.

8. Timeline of Events
 May
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May 2, Monday
Sony reveals that Sony Online Entertainment’s
network had been hacked over 2 weeks ago.
May 3, Tuesday
Sony begins informing their users of the breach.

9. Timeline of Events
 May
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May 9, Monday
Analysts See Billion - Dollar Repair Bill

10. Timeline of Events
 May
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May 15, Sunday
Sony restarts internet services after hacking debacle.

11. Timeline of Events
 May
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May 16, Monday
Amazon cloud servers used to hack the PSN.

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latest target:
SONY
Spokespeople for
anonymous have denied
any role in Playstation
Network hack and have
stated that it isn’t the
anonymous style.
verdict:
probably innocent
anonymous

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famous attack:
Silicon Valley bigwigs
The attackers first hit a
single employee then
expand through the
network until they’ve found
what they’re looking for -
trade secrets, source code
and intelligence.
verdict:
innocent
china

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who?:
Bored teenager
Much smaller numbers than
professionals.
The Playstation Network
database is an alluring target
for recreational hackers to
target.
verdict:
maybe guilty
recreational
hacker

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found at places:
Ukraine and Russia
Attackers will steal databases
and sell routinely over carder
forums and in private
transactions.
verdict:
probably guilty
for-profit
cyberthief

17. How does
the Sony
fiasco
compare
to past
data
breaches?
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SOURCES:
http://www.develop-online.net/features/1176/Timeline-The-PlayStation-Network-attack-and-
collapse
http://creditcardonlineapplication.net/credit-card-theft-%E2%80%93-the-5-biggest-credit-
card-heists-in-history
http://www.awired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/playstation_hack
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:SNE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859304576307664174667924.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/sony-restarts-internet-services-weeks-after-
hacking-debacle/story-fn7x8me2-1226056194901
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-15/sony-attack-shows-amazon-s-cloud-service-
lures-hackers-at-pennies-an-hour.html
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/japan-stalls-sony-playstation-restart/story-
e6frgakx-1226056625499
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pittaya/4785149065/

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