Sony Hacked because of Intellectual Property
June 30, 2011
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts
Image source: www.gamespot.com
In April 2011 the Sony PlayStation Network was hacked. The breach exposed over 100 million user accounts and credit card details. Sony has recently been hacked more than 10 times including Sony Thailand, Sony Music Japan, Sony Ericcson Canada, Sony Pictures, Sony Europe, Sony BMG Greece and others.
Sony has apologized repeatedly and said that the original attack was a highly professional, criminal cyber attack, the largest of all hacks to date.
Analysts say Sony‘s problems started when the PlayStation Network pressed charges in 2009 against hacker, George Hotz (Geohot) who reverse-engineered Sony’s PlayStation 3 so that it could run unapproved open source applications.
This move reportedly infuriated many hackers but Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer said they were hacked because they tried to protect their intellectual property.
Sir Howard Stringer said that there people who don’t want them to protect their intellectual property, they want everything to be free.
PlayStation Network shareholders pushed for Sir Howard Stringer to step down as CEO. Social Network website Facebook hired George Hotz (Geohot) in 2011.
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One Response to “Sony Hacked because of Intellectual Property”
He looks so young, it is scary. It is amazing how one person can cause this much damage to a large corporation. Sony got hit hard!
By Harry on Jul 18, 2011