{"id":450551,"date":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/%e2%80%98protecting-content-made-sony-hackers%e2%80%99-target%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T06:00:00","slug":"protecting-content-made-sony-hackers-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/protecting-content-made-sony-hackers-target\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Protecting content made Sony hackers\u2019 target\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\n<span id=\"fullgist\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>TOKYO Sony Corp believes it was targeted by hackers because it tried to protect its intellectual property, CEO Howard Stringer told a shareholders\u2019 meeting at which he sidestepped a call for him to step down over the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reuters reports that Sony has been under fire since hackers in April accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 per cent of which are users in North America or Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sony said at the time that credit card information might have been stolen, sparking lawsuits and casting a shadow over its plans to combine content and hardware products via online services. The company also disclosed more hacking attacks against it in May and June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No one has claimed responsibility for the massive hacking attack in April but many have speculated it was sparked by Sony\u2019s efforts to clamp down on customers who try to modify its systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe believe that we first became the subject of attack because we tried to protect our IP (intellectual property), our content, in this case videogames,\u201d Stringer told shareholders at Tuesday\u2019s meeting in response to a question about the background to the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other high-profile firms, including defence contractor Lockheed Martin, and Google Inc, have also been victims of recent cyber attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sony sued hacker George Hotz for copyright infringement and circumventing PlayStation 3\u2019s protection schemes after he posted information on the Internet that would enable gamers to run self-created applications on their consoles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The company, which says the information will make pirating games easier, announced on April 11 that it had settled the charges against Hotz. About a week later, Sony\u2019s systems were hacked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hotz, who first gained notoriety by unlocking Apple\u2019s iPhone, has now landed a job at Facebook, media reports said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stringer did not respond directly when another shareholder asked him to step down to allow the company to make a fresh start after what is believed to be the world\u2019s biggest ever Internet security breach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sony\u2019s share price has fallen by about 16 per cent since April 26, the day before the company revealed the first attack, and was almost flat on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 69-year-old Welsh-born former TV producer said only that his foremost responsibility was to oversee the company\u2019s development and to nurture the next generation of management.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110629147462\" title=\"\u2018Protecting content made Sony hackers\u2019 target\u2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Protecting content made Sony hackers\u2019 target\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> TOKYO Sony Corp believes it was targeted by hackers because it tried to protect its intellectual property, CEO Howard Stringer told a shareholders\u2019 meeting at which he sidestepped a call for him to step down over the incident. Reuters reports that Sony has been under fire since hackers in April accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 per cent of which are users in North America or Europe. Sony said at the time that credit card information might have been stolen, sparking lawsuits and casting a shadow over its plans to combine content and hardware products via online services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Protecting content made Sony hackers\u2019 target\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/protecting-content-made-sony-hackers-target\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Protecting content made Sony hackers\u2019 target\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"TOKYO Sony Corp believes it was targeted by hackers because it tried to protect its intellectual property, CEO Howard Stringer told a shareholders\u2019 meeting at which he sidestepped a call for him to step down over the incident. 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