Sony Online Entertainment info breached in addition to Playstation Network hack

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - It's been a bad couple of weeks for Sony and the company's customers.

The company said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from 24.6 million user accounts on the Sony Online Entertainment network. This data breach comes on top of the 77 million PlayStation Network accounts Sony has already said were jeopardized by a malicious intrusion.

The latest incident occurred April 16 and 17 - earlier than the PlayStation break-in, which occurred from April 17 to 19, according to Sony.

Sony shut down service to Sony Online Entertainment games Monday and service remains suspended Tuesday. The service is best known for massively multiplayer online games, including "EverQuest," "Free Realms" and "DC Universe Online." Games are available on personal computers, Facebook and the PlayStation 3 console.

According to Sony,"Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password."

Sony also cautions customers outside the U.S. that about 23,400 financial records from an outdated 2007 database involving people outside the U.S. may have been stolen in the newly discovered breach, including 10,700 direct debit records of customers in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, it said.

The outdated information contained credit card numbers, debit card numbers and expiration dates, but not the 3-digit security code on the back of credit cards. The direct debit records included bank account numbers, customer names, account names and customer addresses.

The company said it will grant players 30 days of additional time on their subscriptions, along with one day for each day the system is down.