Personal info on 400 users of Sony mobile phones possibly breached
TOKYO. September 6. KAZINFORM A mobile phone unit of Sony Corp. has come under cyberattack, possibly leading to a breach of personal information on at least 400 Chinese and Taiwanese users including their names and e-mail addresses, company officials said Thursday.
The possibly breached data, stored in servers run by a firm to which Sony Mobile Communications Japan Inc. outsources some operations, do not include such information as credit card numbers and bank accounts, the officials said, Kyodo reports.
On Monday, a group which is said to have links with computer hackers known as Anonymous, said in a posting on the Internet that it has hacked into eight servers related to Sony, disclosing some names and e-mail addresses of customers.
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