Sony Announces That Its PlayStation Network User Data Was Stolen During the External Intrusion by Hackers

Sony has now eventually declared a warning notice to all its customers during the ‘external intrusion,’ actually its Network was completely hacked and note only data like users’ password, birthday but also additional data has been acquired by the hackers. Almost all the users’ data of its PlayStation Network, which connects PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles for online-gaming and more, has risks of being stolen.

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On the 20^th of April, Sony suspended its PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming music service as it claimed it was due to do an "external intrusion," informed by its spokesperson Patrick Seybold. Even though the investigation of such sensitive cyber attack is still under investigation, Sony has revealed the confirmation of very crucial data being stolen, of PlayStation Network and Qriocity service users' names, addresses, birthdates, passwords, and email addresses.

Look Alike Service of Twitter in Chinese Intends To Expand Worldwide By Adding Other Languages, Including English

One of the most prominent rivals of Twitter, which are just look-alike 

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services, is a Chinese microblogs which has now decided to expend enough to add foreign languages to its site Chinese. It is definitely expected to begin from English language interface for the much-used iPhone app. The microblog, was released first by a Chinese news portal operator, Sina, back in the August of 2009. Since then it has accumulated up to a 100 million and above users data, which is almost the half users that Twitter has worldwide, which is a huge deal.

The company has just included the English language interface for its iPhone app just in the start of this month although much of its posts still remain in the Chinese language. It was however boasted by the C.E.O. of Sina, Charles Chao himself, that there are there are millions addicted users of the microblog which reside outside the mainland China. He also notified that these places beside China, where mostly users use the site include Hong Kong, Taiwan and North America. He also added afterwards that this new English interface is definitely intended to facilitate these users in foreign countries who already the microblog service, and add more.

Sony Still Keeps Its PlayStation Network on Hold for Its Rebuilding After the Intrusion

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It has been the sixth day since the PlayStation Network has been kept 

offline; Sony claims to be putting all hands on the deck in order to rebuild the service which connects the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and other console games like PSP, to online gaming, films, and other digital offerings by Sony. PlayStation Network was suspended along with the Qriocity streaming music abruptly on the 20^th of April, 2011 as the company explained that it has faced an "external intrusion."

Patrick Seybold, the spokesperson for Sony wrote in his blog post at the time of suspension of the service that "I know you are waiting for additional information on when PlayStation Network and Qriocity services will be online.” He went on asserting that "Unfortunately, I don't have an update or timeframe to share at this point in time."

Friendster Finally Announces To Delete All Previous Old Data Including Photos for a Complete Makeover of the Website

A certain aged people who used to intensively use internet for networking in their teen ages and are no longer involved that much, but are often embarrassed of having unordinary photos and comments or such kind of material on the once-best networking website, Friendster. If in any case, you’re hoping to keep them safe than you definitely need to be more vigilant as the website has announced that it is soon going to begin a complete makeover for itself. As a part of this makeover, the networking website has declared that it will be deleting all its material after the 31^st of May. The developers of Friendster have launched a quick tool which easily exports these photos along with other materials transferable material to the computers or other sites like Flickr accounted by the specific user.

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As much as this initiative of transferring the material easily, the problem is that many, in fact almost all, of the users are no longer in access of their Friendster account. It was about eight years back that this social network had some hype but since after that many people have forgotten their login information or even worse dumped their affiliated email accounts too. It has been announced that all the accounts information on the social website will be completely deleted. The next step of Friendster’s is to completely overhaul the website and this time come-off as an entertainment-based site, somewhat similar to Myspace. However, it is very difficult to picture what’s coming next, if we consider the announcement made by the company, as it remains pretty ambiguous. The company intends to this time lay focus of its new website on the Asian users, which is reasonably considering that MOL Global, a Malaysian company owns the website now.