If you’ve been keeping up on the tech news lately, It seems as the world has come crashing down on Sony due to an external intrusion into its Playstation /Qriocity network. Bloggers, and reporters are going to blog about this probably for the next month or so. If you werent already aware, Sony shut down its Playstation Network on April 19 due to an external intrusion. It was reported that 77 million accounts were compromised. (The biggest security breach in history)
Now before everyone goes and yells at me, I will say that Sony was at fault for not securing its users personal information. Your credit card data was encrypted however so that was not stolen.
But, you cant blame the company 100% for losing your information. As consumers, you should take proactive steps to protect your information instead of abiding by the rule of “It wont happen to me”. I would encourage you to change your passwords to your accounts immediately!
In all honesty however, the Playstation Network hack was to overrated and hyped up. Heres why,
1. People everyday get their personal information stolen on Windows and Apple machines. I”m not sure on the stats for Linux, but I can guarantee that people get their information compromised on that OS as well since its open source.
2. Customers had personal information stolen using the iPad just recently
3. Google got hacked by China stealing users confidential data and e-mails
4. Google Android has malware in its marketplace which steals user information
5. People lose their personal information on Facebook everyday due to phising scams.. 24/7.
6. Apple iPads and iPhones have been storing users location data for a full year in an UNENCRYPTED fileon each computer the iPad and iPhone have been synced with. Even though people had the option to opt out, it still recorded the information anyway
As you see, there have been many other recent hacks into major corporations. Sony just joined the fray of the whole cloud computing game. All companies have this motto that goes:
“Store your data in the cloud and Trust us with your data. Its 99.9999% safe and secure. 
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Yet all companies who promote that have ended up getting hacked The other companies should welcome Sony to the fray. Although Sony made history since 77 million users were compromised, a lesson should be learned by consumers is,
YOUR CONFIDENTIAL DATA IS NOT SAFE IN THE CLOUD!!
Chris
