PSN users who purchased identity theft
protection after the hacking incident can also receive compensation for those services as part of the settlement agreement.
Not exact matches
What's more, LifeLock, an identity theft
protection company, has said that enrollments for its service have increased 10-fold since the Equifax breach, with more than 100,000 signing up within just the first week
after the
hack was disclosed.
«The brutal killing today of an editor of an LGBTI publication and his friend, days
after a university professor was
hacked to death, underscores the appalling lack of
protection being afforded to a range of peaceful activists in the country,» said Amnesty International's South Asia director Champa Patel.
The hacker cabal, Anonymous, who emerged in the wake of George «Geohot» Hotz» bitter legal feud over
hacking the PS3's firmware, have promised their «movement does not end here»
after a planned protest of Sony Center stores - which had the Japanese manufacturer hiring police forces for
protection - ended up in embarrassment, with a scant few members sheepishly arriving for the proposed sit - in.
Coincheck, which is unregistered but whose application was under review at the time of the
hack, was inspected by the FSA
after the
hack on Feb. 2 to ensure user
protection.
The move, which comes a few weeks
after Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck was
hacked, is a response to the country's Financial Services Agency discovering issues with exchanges» customer
protection and anti-money laundering procedures, according to Nikkei.
After the historical Coincheck
hack in January that saw the loss of 530 million dollars worth of cryptos, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan's financial watchdog, intervened and halted Coincheck operations until it implemented mechanisms to prevent money laundering and enhance
protection for client assets»
protection.
After completing its first round of inspections, the FSA reportedly fears a repeat of a Coincheck - style hack after discovering a multitude of concerns in customer protection and anti-money-laundering meas
After completing its first round of inspections, the FSA reportedly fears a repeat of a Coincheck - style
hack after discovering a multitude of concerns in customer protection and anti-money-laundering meas
after discovering a multitude of concerns in customer
protection and anti-money-laundering measures.