Sony's Lesson: Consumer's Data Security

(1/22/2013) If you are a Sony PlatStation player, you probably remember the hacking in the April of 2011. The scale of this hacking is staggering: more than 100 millions user's data are hacked. Sony's problem is not only in their weak internet security, but also in their crisis management. Probably it's because of the Japanese culture that does not like to admit mistakes. Sony's manager did not inform users the potential risk at the moment when they found the security problem. (Well, Sony was not aware of how big that problem was though.)
     There was a class lawsuit against Sony after this hacking. However, this class lawsuit was dismissed because those plaintiffs are not Sony PSN subscribers. Instead, they are Sony PSN's free users. Well, too bad.

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(7/23/2013) Apple's developer website has been hacked for three days, and now Apple just admitted that happened. While Sony was not aware of the scale of its security breaches and did not know that is important to its game users, Apple's is not totally unaware of its security problem. Remaining quiet and secrecy is just the way Apple always is, even when it is about the developer's security issue. (I guess Apple's reasoning was "Well there are way less Apple's developers than Apple's direct consumers, it won't trigger a confidence tsunami for Apple.")