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Sony's problems won't go away as soon as it finally brings the PlayStation Network back online. After Kaz Hirai answered questions posed by Congress this week, a source has indicated that New York’s Attorney General has subpoenaed the PlayStation maker.
Eric Schneiderman is, according to a source, looking to find out “what Sony told customers about the security of their networks, as part of a consumer protection inquiry,” Bloomberg reports. (Last week, more than 20 Attorney Generals were said to be following the lead of Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal in openly questioning Sony’s actions.) In his letter, Hirai outlined the timeline for what’s happened over the past several weeks as well as why it took so long for it to go public with the leak.
Also included in his response to the House Subcommittee was a claim that a file had been left on Sony Online Entertainment‘s servers named “Anonymous” containing the phrase “We are Legion.” The hacker group has been suspected of launching the attack on Sony despite its denial. That’s thanks in part to the group pledging to attack Sony prior to the breach. Sony says a denial of service attack conducted by Anonymous may have intentionally impeded Sony’s ability to detect the breach that led to the personal data of 77 million users being leaked.
