A major security breach of Sony's PlayStation Network in April 2011 exposed the personal information, including names, addresses and possibly credit card data, of roughly 77 million user accounts, forcing Sony to shut the online gaming service down for about a month. It was one of the largest data breaches in history at the time, costing Sony an estimated 170 million dollars and prompting government inquiries in multiple countries into the company's data security practices.
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The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the 2011 PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the service.
1. Wikipedia, 2011 PlayStation Network Outage
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