Sony Says 25m Additional Users Hacked

Sony has warned that roughly 25 million additional Playstation users might have had their personal sum taken in a hacker attack.

The acknowledgment comes as the firm reels from a number of safety breaches.

On Monday, it took the Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) service offline as segment of its wider investigation.

Last week, it certified that the personal sum of 77m Playstation users might have been stolen by hackers.

In a summary to its customers, Sony said: "We had formerly believed that SOE patron information had not been performed in the cyber-attacks on the company."

However, it updated that "on May 1 you resolved that SOE account information might have been stolen".

Sony was quoted by the Associated Press headlines group as adage that the ultimate situation occurred on 16 and 17 April.

This was progressing than the incomparable Playstation user safety breach.

Sony mentioned that during the safety breach, sum of non-US users were compromised.

It explained that the send withdraw sum of roughly 11,000 customers in Austria, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany were stolen, as were the credit or withdraw card sum of a few 13,000 non-US customers.