Playstation

Sony, the creator of the Playstation 3 was the victim of a hacker last year. They were only one of the victims because they lost 4.8% on their stock price. The real loser in this hacking are the users of Playstation because their information was stolen. Credit information, names, locations, dates all were in the players user profiles and was stolen by this hacker. I believe that it is Sony's duty to protect this information. The unauthorized sharing of this information opens up millions of possibilities for credit fraud and identity theft. These are issues that should not be taken lightly and can open Sony up to millions of lawsuits from all of their users at risk.  Sony released a statement claiming that there was an external intrusion and that it is believed to be the group ANONYMOUS. The group then released a statement claiming that they had not done this themselves but sometimes ANONs work by themselves.  This does not seem to be the work of ANONYMOUS in my opinion because they typically perform a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). This is the equivalent of  bombarding a target with 100 gigabits per second worth of information from up to thousands of computers. I believe that someone out there stole a large amount of information for personal gain as oppose to send Sony a message.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/226128/Sony_Makes_it_Official_PlayStation_Network_Hacked.html