Privacy Commissioner Investigates PlayStation Hack

Jennifer Stoddart, who successfully took on Facebook's privacy flaws, is considering a full review into the massive data breach.

Canada's privacy commissioner, the always dutiful Jennifer Stoddart, will look into the massive security breach of the Sony PlayStation Network, in which the credit card accounts, email addresses, and network passwords of nearly 80 million people could have been exposed. Sony encouraged all account holders to check their credit card statements to make certain nothing is amiss, and has taken the popular gaming network down while it investigates the hack, believed to have occurred between April 17 and 19. Stoddart, who famously took on Facebook's questionable privacy settings two years ago, has taken the initial steps of opening an investigation into the breach to determine whether a full-fledged review of Sony's network safety is warranted.

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