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Summary Sony PlayStation gamers expressed shock and disappointment at a massive data hack.
Some gamers are writing in online forums to call for a boycott of Sony products. Sony PlayStation gamers expressed shock and disappointment at a massive data hack in which their names, addresses and credit-card details might have been stolen from the PlayStation Network.Sony warned earlier that unidentified hackers had stolen the personal details of its 77 million user accounts, in one of the biggest-ever Internet security break-ins. The Japanese electronics giant advised users, almost 90 percent of whom are based in Europe and the United States, to change any common passwords they also used for other services. It said children with accounts established by their parents might have had their data exposed.Some bloggers blamed the security breach on Anonymous, a loose online collective of cyber activists who did attack Sony earlier this month in protest at Sonys legal action against two hackers seeking to enhance the PlayStations features.
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