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BEIJING: Hackers may have stolen personal information of 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment users, the company disclosed Monday afternoon. The compromised accounts were in addition to the recent leak of over 70 million accounts from Sony's PlayStation Network, an online game and entertainment service for its PlayStation 3 console. The Japanese electronics company said the break-in also led to the theft of 10,700 direct debit records from customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain and 12,700 non-U.S. credit or debit card numbers. The Sony Online Entertainment network, used for massively multiplayer online games like EverQuest, Star Wars Galaxies and Matrix Online, has been suspended temporarily, Sony said Monday. The entertainment network is separate from the PlayStation Network, but both hacks have similar traits, said Mai Hora, a spokeswoman for Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo. In both cases, the stolen data includes customer names, e-mail addresses and ha...

The logo of web titan Google is seen at the firm's headquarters in Mountain View, California. A dominant force in Internet searches the company has launched a social networking service in a bid to rival Facebook called Google+. Google, the king of Internet search but a bust on the social front, has launched its rival to Facebook, a social networking service called Google+. "Online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it," Google's senior vice president for engineering Vic Gundotra said in a blog post about the long-awaited social networking initiative from the Internet giant. Unveiling Google+, Gundotra stressed the ability it gives users to separate online friends and family into different "Circles," or networks, and to share information only with members of a particular circle. "We'd like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software," he said. "We want to make Google better by including you, your rela...