The federal government will introduce legislation to force companies to disclose the privacy acts, Sony revealed its PlayStation Network attacks recently destroyed more than 150 million Australian dollars a user account. Stolen information includes name, address, birthday, e-mail address and password. Sony said the 1,560,791 accounts affected in Australia, 28 million credit card details, but these are encrypted and there had been fraud, not reported.
Privacy Minister Brendan O'Connor said he was "very concerned" about personal information stolen, expressed disappointment that Sony took "several days" breach of this customer. This means that now a mandatory "data breach notification" system "is clearly necessary, he said." However, the Government said, will introduce such a law.
"Sony is not alone, we have seen in recent months, serious privacy-related events involving other big companies," O'Connor said, referring to the incident involving Dell Australia and Telstra. Free online paid surveys. Search engine optimization expert. "All companies collect customers' personal information must ensure information security and misuse of safety." Timothy Pilgrim, Australia's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Sony's incident.
Sony's high-level security vulnerabilities at the weekend to apologize and promised to improve security, and compensation for free access to the PlayStation Network.
"We have caused inconvenience to our deep regret, said:" Kazuo Hirai, Sony's PlayStation video game unit head, in a few seconds, bowed to the traditional Japanese apology, in the company's Tokyo headquarters, three executives .
This is our network of criminal behavior, not only for our consumers a significant impact, but our entire industry. "Sony Australia said it believes there is no truth, the report lists have been sold.
Despite these assurances, more and more reports have surfaced from the alleged fraudulent use of their credit card PlayStation users, including Germany and Japan in the grocery store to buy a flight booking.
NSW Cyberspace Law and Policy, David Weir, executive director of the University, said that the incident was "chilling example" company focused on online storage on the server so much personal information at risk. "Protector must be 100% perfect in their defense, the attacker need only find a small gap open up, Weil said Professor."
