Post: Sony to Answer Congress' PSN Outage Questions
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05-04-2011, 10:57 PM
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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: ClutchLikeMelo // May 4, 2011
Sony announced on Saturday that online services should be back within this week. However more than 13 days after the PSN went down, they continue their investigations.
Sony has been trying to get to the bottom of this and have even got FBI's cybercrimes unit, and The Department of Homeland Security to help out. Now, the company has agreed to cooperate with the US Congress by answering several of their questions thanks to the US House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
The questions sent in by Sony Corporation executive deputy president Kaz Hirai, can be seen You must login or register to view this content. thanks to the New York Times. Several of the questions are:
--"When did you become aware of the illegal and unauthorized intrusion?"
--"How did you become aware of the breach?"
--"What information was obtained by the unauthorized individual(s) as a result of this breach, and how did you ascertain this information?"
--"How many PlayStation Network account holders provided credit card information to Sony Computer Entertainment?"
--"Please explain why you do not believe credit card information was obtained and why you cannot determine if the data was in fact taken."
Later, Sony told GameStop that company You must login or register to view this content. will not testify at tomorrow's hearing, but they did say they would " provide answers to the government's questions before a Congress-imposed May 6 deadline."
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"Sony is cooperating with the request for answers to the Committee’s questions, and in fact will be providing our responses in advance of the deadline," a Sony rep said. "We informed the committee that we could not appear as early as this Wednesday because of our ongoing intensive investigation and management of this criminal cyberattack."
Let's see what comes out of this.
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