Sony has suffered another online security breach, this time for 2,000 customers of its Sony Ericsson joint venture in Canada, the latest in a series of hacker attacks against the electronics and entertainment company.
Sony Corp. spokesman Atsuo Omagari said Wednesday that names, e-mail and encrypted passwords may have been stolen from Sony Ericsson Canada website, but no credit card information was taken.
There have been no reports of damage from the security breach, discovered Tuesday evening, and the server was shut down, he said. An investigation was under way, and other details were not immediately available.
Sony Ericsson is a mobile phone maker that is a joint venture between L.M. Ericsson of Sweden and Sony.
On Tuesday, Sony was said it found a security breach affecting 8,500 user accounts in a music entertainment website in Greece, involving names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.
Tokyo-based Sony has been battling production will delays and sales losses after supplier factories were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.
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