Sony chiefs sorry for security breach

SONY executives bowed in apology yesterday fora security breach in the company’s PlayStation Network that caused the loss of personal data of some 77 million accounts on the online service.

“We deeply apologise for the inconvenience we have caused,” said Kazuo Hirai, chief of Sony’s PlayStation video game unit, who was among the three executives who bowed for several seconds at the company’s Tokyo headquarters in the traditional style of a Japanese apology.

Hirai said parts of the service would be back this week and the company would beef up security measures. But he and other executives acknowledged that not enough had been done in security precautions, and promised that the company’s network services were under a basic review to prevent a recurrence.