Attack on the PSN, a late explanation?

In a statement released over the past few hours, Sony has motivated the timing of the ad on the possible violation of data from users of the PlayStation Network, a service that has about 77 million account. "It's been a long time between the identification of the intrusion and the discovery of the possible violation of users' data," said Patrick Seybold of Sony.

"We identified the intrusion on April 19 and now we have closed the service. We then contacted our experts who have examined the nature and extent of the attack." "It took several days of investigation to assess the extent of the invasion. When we realized we immediately felt the consumers, we reported publicly."

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