PSA essay rough draft.

Persuasive Essay

In 2011, various groups of people hacked into the Japan based company: SONY.

All the online programs SONY had were hacked by unscrupulous groups like Lulzsec (which in native Australian means; laughing at your security). Some of the networks are Play station Network and Sony online entertainment. Only in the UK it will cost them 150 million pounds to pay the bill. If there were any case of fraud that number could soar up.

According to hacker’s tweets, SONY did not have a very secure protection for their users. It was relatively easy to access the users information, as SONY did not encode it. As a result, the personal information of more than 77 million users of SONYS online entertainment and play station was stolen.

The personal information robbed included dates of birth, email accounts, passwords, debit and credit card numbers.

Sony has apologized to its customers. But they also have offered to build real confidence for their customers. In its attempt to regain public confidence, SONY has installed many safety systems like a firewall that cost 2 million dollars to install. Also, it has hired a new security manager as well as another highly trained group of people who specialize in hackers.

The consequences of this security breach, has been catastrophic for some people. For example, Mr. James Cherrick had recently invested most of his savings in SONYS stock. With this hacking, the value of the stock dropped down to half its price causing a significant loss. Mr. Cherrick now has filed for bankruptcy. Poor Mr. Cherrick he is now poor just because a couple of people felt like making the world a worst place for everyone. Also SONY has been very affected. Experts say that it might take up to 10-20 years before customers have faith in SONY.

Why did those groups hack SONY?

They wanted to make easy money.  Those people should be ashamed of themselves. They should be spending their time working and not spending their days figuring how to ruin other people’s lives.  

Others say that the hackers are seeking revenge because they are the sons and daughters of parents who said " oh these guys (multinational companies) just robbed me from the promotion”. What really happened was that the other guy worked way harder. Now, their sons are doing this to get back at the people who supposedly did something to their family.