thranx said:
Edit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/24/sony-fined-over-playstation-hack
" The Information Commissioner's Office on Thursday said the security breach was "one of the most serious" it has handled under the Data Protection Act. The £250,000 fine is the maximum penalty awarded by the ICO against a private company. "There's no disguising that this is a business that should have known better. It is a company that trades on its technical expertise, and there's no doubt in my mind that they had access to both the technical knowledge and the resources to keep this information safe," said David Smith, the ICO's deputy commissioner and director of data protection." |
Yep they were fined.
It didn't take a month to fix the problem though. It took more than a year to actually catch those who were behind it. As far as service was concerned they could have easily bought it back online after a few hours. They just didn't. Probably because they wanted to take extra steps to secure themselves even more?
Companies get hacked all the time. Maybe sony's security was weak, I don't know about that, but it doesn't need to be in order to be hacked.
Anyways they guys who did it got caught didn't they?