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Sony Data Breach: Security Advisory On Insufficient Credit Card Encryption

Calendar May 02, 2011 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Sony Co., in a blog post Thursday, announced that every single important record from the breached credit card database last week was encrypted. But, security experts say it was not enough to fully protect the Sony PlayStation users and that consumer data might still be used by the hackers. On Friday, reports had been released saying the hackers may have obtained the consumer