Sony hacker may also credit card data 77 million users have accessed

The worst case scenario of a recent hacker attack on Sony's gaming network now even worse.

In a blog post at risk Tuesday, Sony's senior director of corporate communications, which Patrick Seybold wrote, that a violation of its PlayStation Network (PSN), the cause has also a week-long outage for users may be more than 77 million gamers account data. These basic information such as names, e-Mail addresses, birth dates, purchase include stories, and PSN passwords and logins. But it also as far as the user can extend credit card information, warn the company.

"Although there is no evidence at this time, which made credit card details, we can exclude the possibility of not," writes Seybold. "If you the data of your credit card via PlayStation Network or Qriocity have made available, are of an abundance of caution we consult that your credit card number (without the security code and expiration date can be."

When 77 million credit card numbers were actually at risk, would, that the Sony case the greatest public violation of customer financial data as Heartland payment systems reported that it had lost more than 100 million user account data in January 2009.

Affected users should receive an e-Mail warning messages them, that they may be the massive violation included. Sony suggests that these users out a fraud alert set a credit reporting agency such as Transperian or Equifax for spam watch and questions to their accounts.

Read Sony's full statement about the hack here.