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It took nearly a month for Sony to restore its gaming network after a serious hack exposed account information of more than 100 million gamers. Now a new security exploit is crashing its coming out party.
In news originally broken last night by gaming news hub Nyleveia.com, a new hack allows identity thieves to reset account passwords by simply entering a gamer's email account and birth date. Adding insult to injury, these two data points were among those swiped last month.
Sony seemed to be doing everything possible to make up for the breach and self-imposed outage. Providing exposed gamers with identity theft protection, credits, and free downloads seemed to ease the sting. However, if Sony's network continues to be made vulnerable, gamers will have no choice but to stop trusting Sony.
Sony's loss will initially be Microsoft's
"Nobody's system is 100% secure," Sony CEO Howard Stringer said in a Bloomberg interview this week.
Sure, it's easy for him to say.
Another near-term winner is GameStop
There's never a good time to be exposed, but the timing now is brutal for Sony.
Xperia Play -- the PlayStation-centric smartphone that Sony is putting out with mobile partner Ericsson
Ouch. Xperia looks great, but how brisk a seller can it be if consumers can no longer trust Sony to protect them as gamers?
Wake up Sony! You're going to sleep right through a monster opportunity.
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