Sony Confirms Exposure Of Some Card Data

Published May 03, 2011, 9:08 a.m. EDT

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Updated May 03, 2011, 2:23 p.m. EDT

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Sony Corp. is reporting that 12,700 credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates were exposed in a separate database from that affected by the massive PlayStation breach.

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The cards were in an “outdated database from 2007” and belonged to non-U.S. customers of its online perconal-computer games, Sony said in a May 3 press release. In addition, 10,700 direct-debit records for customers in some countries also were exposed. Overall, 24.6 million PC gaming accounts were affected, exposing names, addresses, birth dates, hashed passwords and other details.

Sony Online Entertainment LLC, the Sony division behind online multiplayer games such as EverQuest, said it began investigating its own systems after the breach of Sony’s PlayStation Network, an online gaming network and digital storefront for Sony’s PlayStation consoles (see story).

Sony Online Entertainment said it has shut down the affected servers.

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