Sony Corp’s share price fell more than 3 percent to a two-year low yesterday after the latest online attack against the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant targeted its European subsidiary.
Sony shares in Tokyo trade lost 3.14 percent to close at ¥2,062 (US$25.72), the lowest level since March 2009.
CONFIDENTIAL INFO
No confidential data were stolen or published on the Internet in the cyber attack on Sony Europe Ltd, said company spokeswoman Mami Imada in Tokyo.
“It is true that the Web site was illegally accessed, but all the data that the hacker seems to have copied was information already available on the company Web site,” Imada said.
TRAINERS
The London-based headquarters of Sony Europe on Saturday morning spotted the attack in which personal information about the firm’s certified trainers for professional broadcasting equipment was targeted.
Although the data was already open for anyone to view, the hacker accessed the information through an illegal path.
MILLIONS AFFECTED
A series of cyber attacks has affected more than 100 million customer accounts, making it one of the largest data breaches ever.
On Saturday, US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment apologized about a personal data breach that hackers said involved more than 1 million passwords, e-mail addresses and other information being stolen.
NINTENDO WOES
Over the weekend, another Japanese gamemaker, Nintendo Co Ltd, said the server of its US unit had been hacked a few weeks ago.
Nintendo shares lost 1.59 percent at ¥17,910.
“The server contained no consumer information,” a Nintendo statement that confirmed the -attack said.
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