After the hacking incident that had took place April 19 this year, Sony Corp, a giant entertainment and electronics company owned by Japanese is on their way to restore its operation in Japan and other Asian countries.
To recall, it’s almost two weeks ago when the said company had started to restore and relaunch their network in U.S, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.
Part of the company’s restoration of their network is the offering of the “welcome back” package in order to regain the trust of their customers whose information’s are at stake.
The mentioned hacking incident became one of the high-profile hacking events that affected one of the world’s largest corporation bringing Sony in the midst of queries and controversial all pointing to the kind of security system they had.
Pertaining to the corporation’s plan of restoring services to Asia this Saturday, Japan’s Trade Ministry reminded them as well as ordered them to establish and improve their own management styles in handling the security of information held from their customers.
For a damage of almost 77 million hacked personal information coming from their Playstation Network and Qriocity accounts, Sony is under fire. Statistics show that 90 percent of the hacked information is coming from North America and Europe.
With the amount of information that was unveiled by the hacker, the incident is then described as “extremely grave incident.”
Aside from the impact of the incident to the image of Sony, it also affects the profit and income of the company, and forecast tells that the hacking could result to a loss of 14 billion yen ($172 million) for 2011’s financial year, to include in the total is the additional costs in order to strengthen the security measures of the corporation and to improve cloud computing.
The intrusion in Sony’s system was detected when the game console owners was given the privilege to download games and to exchange conversation with friends via chat.
