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BY STEVEN HSIEH
ANCHOR ADAM FALK

Looks like Round 2 went to Sony in the fight with hackers. Sony froze 93,000 accounts on its PlayStation Network after detecting a suspicious number of unauthorized login attempts.

This was a second such attack on Sony since April, but an official Sony blog reports – no credit card information is at risk, and the breadth of damage was minimal:

“Less than one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of our PSN, SEN and SOE audience may have been affected… Only a small fraction of these 93,000 accounts showed additional activity prior to being locked. We are currently reviewing those accounts for unauthorized access, and will provide more updates as we have them.”

But CNN says this was far from a ‘flawless victory’ for Sony. CNN reports the company is taking extra preventative measures to ensure security…

“Network customers who were affected received an e-mail from Sony notifying them of the issue. Everyone who is affected is required by Sony to change their passwords on the network.”

A writer for PC World notes – the media is calling the attack a mass hacking – but that might be misleading.  He says – a hack necessitates an unauthorized breach into a system.  But…

“Trying user names and passwords—en masse or no—isn’t a hack, or if that’s what we’re calling a ‘hack’ these days, the word's lost all meaning… Instead, we're talking about the fallout from a prior attack, in which hackers seized and reportedly released Sony user account-related information.”

And a writer for ZDNet notes – commenters on Sony’s blog responded positively to how the company handled the problem.

He says – the praise shows an improvement on Sony’s slow response to the previous attack in April.

“Sony is finally being as transparent as it should have been in the first place, giving PSN members adequate time to react to what could be a very serious situation for some of them.”

But a writer for Paid Content says, don’t buy everything you read; some of the positive feedback might be coming from inside.

“Some of these comments may have been posted by Sony’s own employees, but overall the tone is markedly different than the universal criticism the company faced in April.”

Transcript by Newsy.