The PlayStation Network that provides those multiplayer capabilities recently suffered an outage of more than three weeks after a hacker intrusion on the service.

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Sony has launched a three-part strategy to win back the trust of users whose data was compromised in a hacker intrusion that may have accessed as many as 77 million accounts: Apologize.

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He was just doing his job as a so-called white-hat hacker for AirTight Networks, a manufacturer of wireless intrusion protection hardware and software that was invented in India and brought to market in the U.S. AirTight's chief executive, David King, sends hackers out for unsolicited security assessments.

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