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TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony said on Sat it had distant from the Internet the obloquy and coloured addresses of 2,500 sweepstakes contestants that had been taken by hackers from most 100 million individual accounts of its PlayStation Network and PC-based online gaming services, said in a evidence info posted on the indolent website also included three unofficial e-mail addresses.

The accumulation came from customers who entered a 2001 product sweepstakes contest. The itemize did not include aggregation on credit cards, ethnic security drawing or passwords.

"The website was discover of date and indolent when unconcealed as part of the continuing attacks on Sony," Sony said, adding that the consort took the website downbound shortly after uncovering discover most the postings on Thursday. Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer apologized on weekday to users of the firm's PlayStation Network and another online services, breaking his silence on the large accumulation breach. The consort said terminal Sun that it would begin restoring services within the hebdomad but a spokeswoman said on Sat this would not be possible, and that no date had been fixed for when services would resume.

The incident haw establish to be a significant setback for a consort looking to recover after existence discover maneuvered by Apple in takeout penalization and Samsung Electronics in flat-screen TVs.

In video games, it faces a thickened fisticuffs with Nintendo's Wii mettlesome console and Microsoft's Xbox.

"This wait is becoming so tedious. I undergo there needs to be a aggregation of testing, but it is really effort annoying. I am earnestly considering dynamical to the Xbox," said message posted by a individual called Cryonic UCX on the U.S. PlayStation blog.

"I LOVE my PlayStation, but Sony is not doing well in the online. Sony, you requirement to travel your mettlesome up!"

On Friday, Sony shares ended 2.3 proportionality modify in a broader mart downbound 1.5 percent, extending its total losses to most 6 proportionality since it revealed the breach. The Nikkei is up around 3 proportionality over the same period.

Sony issued its first warning on the PlayStation break-in a hebdomad after it perceived a difficulty with the meshwork on Apr 19, infuriating many users around the world. Sony said it necessary time to impact discover the extent of the damage.

The hackers hit not been identified, but Internet volunteer group Anonymous, which had claimed responsibility for preceding attacks on Sony and another corporations, denied it was behindhand the accumulation theft.

The group's evidence came after Sony said Anonymous was indirectly answerable for the attack on the company.

Sony, which is set to report its annual earnings on May 26, has yet to specify the financial effect of the meshwork breach.

(Reporting by Isabel Reynolds, Chisa Fujioka; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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