Experts: PlayStation one of the biggest breaches ever

Data breaches that affect 77 million Sony PlayStation Network accounts is one of the largest and most damaging ever, security experts say. -Itsuo Inouye, AP

Sony's headquarters in Tokyo.

By Itsuo Inouye, AP

Sony's headquarters in Tokyo.

On Tuesday, Sony showed ??????? was exposed to personal data of users, including names, e-mail addresses, birth dates, logons, passwords and credit card information-potential. The Federal Bureau of investigations now is "reviewing available information about the facts and circumstances," said special agent Darrell Foxworth in San Diego. "It is certainly one of the biggest events in all of this really because of the amount of information requests from users of Sony (PSN) a large enough to allow a lot of activity related to theft, and criminal offline ??"???? Chet Wisniewski, Senior Security Advisor at the Ministry of defence of Sophos. "This type of information that is used to verify our identity for all kinds of services in real life." other than main events – such as payment systems breach 2009, card transaction processing for 100 million a month, and 175,000 merchants violated the TJX Companies 2007, Which involved 94 million credit accounts-PSN event is at least "not less ???"???? Mandeep Khera from Cenzic application security firm, He joined the choir. visitors highlights the response by Sony, which means the unknown injury on April 19, but did not report users to their personal risk, Financial data until Tuesday. "a delay of more than a week could give hackers a watch to take advantage of the customer data Khera says. "Once you know that the cow is in the best interest of the consumers to inform them so that they can take precautions," says Sony Khera. you may not "waiting to find out what really happened and know what they were broke, waiting for forensics before notifying everyone, that is OK caution on the side of their point of viewBut I think for the good of the consumer, earlier ????"???. case" dozens of times larger and more "than the last leak Epsilon of millions of email addresses, says Paul judge, Chief Research Officer on Barracuda."It and its future about this breach is bkonsnzos data is leaked. This provides potential ammunition for almost any type of attack. "Wake of the infringement, account holders must have a PlayStation Network is very careful "not providing any personal data on the Internet or when they receive in e-mail or unsolicited communication," says Joe Gottlieb, CEO of the firm SenSage log management and security information. "Let's say the attackers got only email addresses, "says Gottlieb. "They are going to initiate a campaign to run as if they are Sony sends the e-mail to all their customers alerting people. And then ask them to improve their security against anything that makes this attack by updating their account. A phishing attack, it would go against all these clients. That is probably taking place now. "For more information about reprints, visit & for our frequently asked questions. To report corrections to vabarot, contact standards editor Jones Brent. For consideration of publication in the newspaper, send your comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, telephone number, city and country for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections. usatoday.com. We have updated the guidelines of the conversation. Changes include a brief overview of the process of reduction and explains how to use the button "report". Read more.