Matt Posted July 13, 2013 Report Posted July 13, 2013 Sony has given up its appeal over a fine of £250,000 from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) having originally vowed to fight the case. The firm claimed it has done so in order to avoid revealing information on its security procedures rather than because it now agrees with the fine.The ICO handed the fine to the firm at the start of the year after a hack in 2011 on its PlayStation Network left millions of customers' details exposed, including their addresses, email addresses, dates of birth and account passwords. The ICO said customers' payment card details were also at risk.The ICO's deputy commissioner David Smith said Sony, as a leading technology company, should have been better prepared. "It is a company that trades on its technical expertise, and there's no doubt in my mind that they had access to both the technical knowledge and the resources to keep this information safe," he said when announcing the fine.However, Sony said at the time it would appeal as the breach that exposed the data was the result of a "focused and determined criminal attack".But, writing on Twitter, the ICO said Sony had now dropped its case on the appeal.Sursa V3.co.uk Quote
