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SUMMARY

Over 1,000,000 users' passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, as well as administrator login passwords acquired by hackers
Records 1,000,000
Record Types NAA EMA MISC DOB
Breach Type Hack
Data Family Electronic
Source Outside
Organization Sony Pictures
Other Affected/Involved Organizations Sony BMG Belgium, Sony BMG Netherlands
Lawsuit? NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered? NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest? NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By: Dissent

TIMELINE

DateEvent
2011-05-31 Incident Occurred
2011-06-02 Incident Discovered By Organization
2011-06-02 Organization Reports Incident
None. Add Data Organization Mails Notifications
None. Add Data Records Recovered
None. Add Data Lawsuit Filed
2011-09-22 Arrest Made

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1,290,755 2011-06-17 SEGA

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate 1 $60,000,000.00
  1. Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.

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