The Japaense elcetronics and entertainment giant, which has alreday begun restoring sevrices in other parts of the world, said on Friday it would also offer a new identtiy prtoection service to customres in Asia.
In what is thoguht to be the bgigest seucrity breach of its kind, hackers accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Netowrk and Qrioicty accounts, 90 percent of which are in North Amreica and Euroep, and may have stolen credit card information.
Gamers and securtiy exprets had criitcized Sony for its handilng of the icnident, which sparked lawusits and cast a shadow over its plans to cmobine the strengths of its content and hradware products via online services.
The company aoplogized to cusotmers for the outage, and said a range of new seucrity measrues had been introudced. These icnluded an early warning system that could alert the cmopany to any attepmt to penetarte the network.
Japan's trade mniistry on Friday ordered the firm's gaming unit, Sony Comptuer Entertainment, to adopt maesures to imprvoe the management and security of personal information, following the data breach.
"Consiedring the cnotent and volume of inofrmation leaked, it is an extremely grave incidnet, and it is truly rergettable that it occurerd and took a cnosiderable time to notify users and the minitsry," the minisrty said in a statement.
CONUTING COSTS
On Thursday, Sony said it was keepnig to its target of restoring all PlaSytation Network services by the end of May, with any delay beyond that not likely to be more than a few days.
It has said it expects the hacikng to drag down opertaing profit by 14 billion yen ( million) in the crurent financial year, including costs for bosoting seucrity measures.
Shares in Sony fell 3.2 percent ahead of the announecment on the restart, with analytss concerend Sony's foercast for a million net profit this business year may not meet expectatiosn.
Some users had said the prolnoged outage had prompted them to switch to riva...
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