Following this weekend’s big story on Zappos being hacked, the shoe retailer has been sued by an angry customer.
The customer claims Zappos did not properly “maintain adequate procedures for protecting customers? personal information.” 24 million accounts were compromised over the weekend in the largest breach of security since the PSN hack in April 2011.
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Late last night, I received an email, as did 24 million other account holders, that our Zappos accounts had been hacked and we needed to change our passwords.
The popular shoe retailer owned by Amazon says that information such as names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers and encrypted versions of account passwords were likely compromised.
Zappos says all credit card numbers and other payment information were not accessed, since they were housed in a different database.
Additionally, Zappo’s discounted 6PM.com site was also hacked in the same attack. At 24 million compromised, the attack is the largest since Sony’s PlayStation Network was taken down in April 2011, compromising data on 101 million gamers.
The retailer reset everyone’s passwords, but has shut off its phone lines, meaning all customer service requests will go to email.
Result for: sony
AT&T has noted today that the upcoming PS Vita with 3G will be carrier locked, meaning only AT&T SIM cards will work in the handheld.
All international GSM SIM and T-Mobile in the U.S. will give an error when turned on.
Yesterday, the carrier revealed pricing for the 3G data plans. The carrier says 250MB will run you $15 per month, and $25 will get you 2GB. Those prices come on top of the extra $50 premium the 3G model demands on the base price.
Although the device is carrier-locked, Sony revealed that device will at least be region-free, meaning Japanese games will work on American handhelds, and every other combination.
With a release date in late February for the U.S. and Europe, the Vita will run on an ARM Cortex A9 quad-core processor and be powered by a quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU.
Featuring a 5-inch capacitive multitouch OLED screen (with 16 million colors), the device will be 7.16 by 0.73 by 3.28 inches. Furthermore, the Vita has 512MB memory and 128MB VRAM in its graphics processor.
Result for: sony
Last week, the tablet formerly known as S1 was given its official name, the “Tablet S.”
Set for launch in September, the device will run on Honeycomb 3.1 and support an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The tablet has a 9.4-inch screen, runs on a Tegra 2 processor and is the first tablet to have PlayStation certification. The device will have Wi-Fi, 3G and DLNA connectivity.
Today, Sony has let slip more info on the clam shell designed S2, giving it its official name of “Tablet P.”
The dual-screened device will have 512MB RAM, 4GB storage, 4G support, a Tegra 2 processor and weigh just 13 ounces.
Pricing is still unknown.
