Understood scope of the breach Monday.
Sony has moved to calm growing anger from PlayStation 3 users over the timing of its announcement that their personal information, possibly even their credit card details, had been stolen.
Last night Sony began sending emails to PSN users warning them their personal information, including PSN usernames and passwords, addresses and email addresses, had been stolen by an unauthorized user. There are 77 million PlayStation Network users across the world, and three million in the UK.
But given the service has been down since last Wednesday in the US, many have wondered why it took so long for Sony to warn its customers to change their passwords and check their credit card statements.