{"id":429817,"date":"2011-05-25T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T06:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/25\/sony-websites-in-new-hack-attack\/"},"modified":"2011-05-25T06:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T06:25:18","slug":"sony-websites-in-new-hack-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/25\/sony-websites-in-new-hack-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony websites in new hack attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"48.7908868999\"><span><span>25 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>02:25 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese electronics giant Sony has reported fresh hacking attacks on a number of its websites.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that personal data of 2,000 consumers was stolen from a Sony Ericsson website in Canada, while details of 8,500 users were leaked on Sony Music Entertainment website in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>The company said emails, passwords and phone numbers of users were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said no credit card details were lost.<\/p>\n<p>The company said in a statement, that both the websites were externally hosted by third parties and were not connected to its main network.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, account information of more than 100m customers was compromised in cyber attacks on Sony&#8217;s networks.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s spokesman George Boyd told the BBC that the company&#8217;s Music Entertainment website in Indonesia and Sony&#8217;s Thailand website were also hacked, though no data was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Sony said all four websites have been temporarily shutdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-13537128\" title=\"Sony websites in new hack attack\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sony websites in new hack attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 25 May 2011 Last updated at 02:25 ET The Japanese electronics giant Sony has reported fresh hacking attacks on a number of its websites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":420294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-429817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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