Business Week:
Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet’s Nest — The PlayStation data breach comes shortly after Sony sued and prosecuted hackers — There’s an Internet phenomenon called the Streisand Effect. It happens when a person or company tries to suppress a piece of information and, in so doing, unintentionally popularizes it.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too — We’ve seen a trifecta of failures and/or screwups over the past couple of weeks, from three of the world’s technology giants: Apple was shown to be keeping a log of the location of millions of iPhone users …
The computer security breach in Sony Corp. ‘s online PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service last week struck a serious, though not fatal, blow to Chief Executive Howard Stringer’s ambitions for a world of connected entertainment in which consumers …
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Matt Clark / MTV Multiplayer:
Sony Under International Government Scrutiny Over PlayStation Network Data Breach — This week just keeps getting worse for Sony. After shutting down the PlayStation Network for over a week, the company announced yesterday that users’ information (possibly even credit card data) may have been swiped by an unknown assailant.