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Qriocity restored today but not in Japan
2011-06-09
Sony claimed it would revive all Qriocity online music and video distribution services Thursday everywhere except Japan, after shutting it and its PlayStation Network down in Apr due to hacker attacks. The company claimed in a press release that it might announce the restoration of Qriocity services in Japan when they become available. Sony has revived all PlayStation Network services everywhere except Japan, HK and South Korea, allowing users in the Americas and Europe and much of Far East to buy and download games on the web. Sony got attacked in one of the most important information breaks since the appearance of the web, in which private information from one hundred million accounts was compromised. The company later suffered attacks on web sites including in Greece, Thailand and Indonesia, and on the Canadian location of mobile telephone company Sony Ericsson. In a new headache, Sony Promoting , the Tokyo-based company that markets and sells Sony products in Japan, declared Thursday an unidentified person could have taken "Sony points" from customers' accounts by utilizing their email addresses. That person might have exchanged the points worth some 280,000 yen ( $3,500 ) for shopping vouchers that might be used to buy Sony products, according to the company. A total of 95 email addresses were concerned in the case but the company asserted there had been "no trace of leaking from our company of private info including email addresses and passwords," Sony Promoting declared. A Sony speaker related there wasn't any proof the selling firm's security had been breached but the way in which the points were robbed was yet to be analyzed.
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