Hackers may have stolen personal information from approximately 25 million accounts from Sony Online Entertainment.
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Last year, hackers stole personal information from a reported 24 million accounts from Sony Online Entertainment.
EverQuest II is among the many games created, developed and made available to subscribers by Sony Online Entertainment.
Sony has announced another data theft, this time affecting 25 million users of its Sony Online Entertainment network.
That's why Thursday's announcement that Schilling would be the next spokesman for Sony Online Entertainment, a San Diego, Calif.
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Almost a year ago, Sony Online Entertainment shuttered its Seattle-area studio as part of a broader layoff of 205 employees.
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The free-to-play Clone Wars Adventures has over 7 million registered users, according to John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment.
On May 1st, the company discovered a data breach on the Sony Online Entertainment service, exposing twenty-four million personal accounts.
EverQuest Next is being billed by Sony Online Entertainment as the next generation of MMO, not just a revamp of EverQuest.
In February, Sony Online Entertainment struck a partnership with George Lucas' LucasArts to create an online gaming environment centered on the Star Wars brand.
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Speaking of Free Realms, Sony Online Entertainment has gathered over 17 million registered players for its free-to-play game across PC, Mac, and PlayStation 3 since 2009.
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Users on the Sony Online Entertainment network - another affected by the hack - will receive their own package of 45 days of game time as well as in-game currency.
The TechHerald points out that Sony has suffered seven security incidents in two months, including an original mass DDoS (distributed denial of service) by Anonymous last month and the devastating breach that compromised the data of more than 100 million account holders of the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment.
But celebrating these features seems dated at this point, as Sony and Microsoft ushered in HD (and Sony 3D) long ago, building up online entertainment networks far more advanced than what Wii U is introducing.
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Sony immediately shut down the PlayStation Network, their online-entertainment hub.
Andy Schuon, president and chief executive officer of Pressplay, an online music service formed as a joint venture of Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
This past September in Tokyo, Sony launched CoCoon, another Linux-based software that links online TV programming guides with viewers selected shows and entertainment tastes.
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