Sony Ericsson’s Canadian online store hacked, greater than 2,000 customers’ data taken

The hackers just won’t give poor Sony a break, will they? Following the infamous PSN breach last month and an attack at the company’s Greek online music service earlier this week, Sony Ericsson has now seen another intrusion that extracted personal data of greater than 2,000 Canadian Eshop customers. Fortunately, the corporate claims that passwords taken were encrypted and no bank card details were lost, but it’s still worrisome nevertheless. As we speak, the Eshop service was taken off line — for the sake of Sir Howard and his Japanese chums, let’s just hope that this can be the last Sony breach we hear about.

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