Sony CEO

For all its efforts Sony on the whole had to temporarily take down the web page that was letting users reset their passwords to the company's resurrected PlayStation Network and Qriocity widgetry afterwards it found a new security hole that would have allowed a hacker to change those passwords again using the stolen data.

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Maureen O'Gara the most read research reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected innovation reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara