Sony confirmed that someone hacked into its Canadian version of eShop and robbed 2,000 names and email addresses of their consumers.

With the latest hacking of information, the problems keep coming for the company. Almost 1,000 records have already been posted online by a hacker, which called himself as Idahc. The hacker said that he is a Lebanese grey-hat hacker.

In addition, Idahc discovered a common programming error in the Internet, which is called an SQL injection flaw that let him to uncover the records of the Official Sony Ericsson eShop, an online store for cell phones and accessories.

According to Ivette Lopez Sisniega, spokesperson of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Idahc got access to the company’s records of almost 2,000 consumers, including their names and email addresses and a mixed up version of users’ passwords.

Sisniega also said that the company has halted this e-commerce site and they can verify that this is an unrelated site and it is not connected to the servers of Sony Ericsson. The spokesperson added that aside from names and email addresses, there are no personal detail of banking was compromised.

Moreover, the company has been under incessant cyber attacked since April, when its PlayStation Network (PSN) was hacked and dragged offline. Also, over the last week, the Sony-run So-net Internet service provider, Sony BMG Greece, a company server in Thailand and Sony BMG Japan were all have been compromised, in what is becoming a free-for-all attacked online on everything that were belongs to Sony.

Earlier this 2011, the company raised the spikes of hackers by prosecuting George Hotz, a well-respected hacking aficionados, who had found a way to shatter the controls of Sony and install Linux on his PlayStation 3. The company settled with Hotz in the end, but to several it came off as a persecute in the matter.

For the second time, Sony reported that hackers infringed security of its second online service and gained personal data of 24.6 million users’ accounts.

Sony Online Entertainment, a San Diego-based subordinate that creates multiplayer games for PCs, stated that it closed it services on Monday along with concerns that hackers may have accessed personal data, such as names, addresses and birthdates, of its users.

Moreover, Sony also reported that it does not believed that hackers also accessed the information of credit cards of those accounts, yet it said that hackers may have taken the information of credit cards for approximately 10,700 bank account numbers and 12,700 non-U.S. accounts from an obsolete database from 2007.

The firm, which has come under conflagration for its managing of the security violation, stated that it discovered the newest infringement on early May 2, Tokyo time, as part of a continuing investigation of the security attacks. Sony closed its PlayStation Network (PSN) on April 20, which lets owners of console play against each other online.

It later revealed that a hacker had taken the personal information of its users like names, addresses, birthdays and probably their credit card numbers from 77 million users on the network. Moreover, the company also stated that the closing of Sony Online Entertainment chased an infringement on April 16 and 17.

According to Michelle Sturdivant, the spokesperson of Sony, they momentarily took down the services of Sony Online Entertainment as part of their continuous investigation with regard to into the external infringement that happened last month. She also said that this is not the second security attack. The closing of its services is the newest black eye for Sony, who’s administrative, apologized on Sunday for the original infringement in a quickly called news meeting and revealed gauges to strengthen security.

Sony unveiled its two touchscreen tablets, which is Google Android-based, on Tuesday that will be launched this fall in an endeavor to compete with Apple’s iPad.

The touchscreen tablets, named S1 and S2, were revealed at a media release in Japan, according to the reports of Reuters. The company will try to hold its successes in the gaming business to make sales of the tablets, as both S1 and S2 will be well-matched with selected games of PlayStation.

Kunimasa Suzuki, the consumer products and services’ deputy president of Sony, said that the gadgets will run the Google Android-based 3.0 Honeycomb Operating System, as he drove a prototype from a jacket pocket at the media release.

In an endeavor to make out itself from the rising list of Android-based competitors of iPad like Samsung Galaxy Tab and Motorola Xoom, Sony has created two unique form features for its tablets. The S1 has an off-center of gravity from factor, while the S2 features a foldable dual-screen setting.

The two gadgets will be promoted under the brand of Sony Tablet and will feature heavy cross-advertisement of the company’s Qriocity media suite. The S1 will alaso feature a 3G/4G cellular data capability, Wi-Fi and Tegra 2 processor. It will also contain an IR port or AV controls with line of Bravia televisions of Sony and support for the Digital Living Network Alliance standards of the company.

Last January, the company surprised the people who attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) when it announced its aims to take the number two place in tablet market this year, despite not having launched a tablet. Prior this year, the company revealed the next generation version of its PlayStation Portable, named the NGP in hopes of beating back at Apple, whose famous iOS devices have rapidly started cannibalizing share of the gaming market of Sony.

A Sony representative assured Monday to bring PlayStation Network and Qriocity back online as soon as possible, following an outage Friday.

According to reports, the company posted on its official blog site Saturday that they are currently rebuilding its PlayStation Network so that is can strengthen its network infrastructures. Qriocity, Sony’s online entertainment platform, was also under repair.

On Wednesday, the company’s online network has been temporarily shut down to give way to an investigation of an external intrusion. The company said that even though the task is time consuming, they have decided that it is worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security. Sony added that the rebuilding may take at least one full day or two to get the service back up and running.

Though the company has acknowledged the outage, it still has not offered a complete explanation for what has knocked the service offline. On previous reports, there has been speculation that the outage was caused by a so-called distributed denial-of-service attack. However, the company representative did not comment on the matter despite recent report said that the company has finally reached a legal settlement against a hacker named George Hotz for jailbreaking PlayStation 3 and distributing the tools for others to do the same.

Other reports said the outage comes after the release of the game Mortal Kombat, which is available on the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Despite all ongoing speculations, the company said that they are working around the clock to bring the services back online. On its blog post, the company apologized for temporary inconvenience and thanked all users for being patient.

Sony announced that it has delivered 4.1 million motion controllers called PlayStation Moves all over the country in two months since they started selling the gadgets.

In addition, the company stated on October 21 that they sold one million units of PlayStation Moves in its first month in the market. The most current figure stands for launch dates of September 15 for PAL/Europe areas and also with the regions and countries in Asia, September 19 for North America and October 21 for Japan.

Moreover, the PlayStation Moves openly battles with the Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii. Microsoft said that it had already sold 2.5 million of its Kinect in 25 days. Both PlayStation Moves and Kinect use electronic motion sensing to know input, even though the PlayStation Moves of Sony need holding a controller that looks like a wand to direct games.

Furthermore, the lineup of games of PlayStation Moves include SingStar Dance, MAG, EyePet Move Edition, Start the Party, Sports Champions and more. The forthcoming titles of games in PlayStation Moves are LittleBigPlanet 2 and Killzone 3.

However, Microsoft reported that the sales figures of Kinect showed sales through the customers, while Sony verified that its figures that showed sales were through retailers, which in turn will be required to sell them to customers to have their own sales.

Also, the company added that it calculated PlayStation Moves controllers as a sale if it was delivered either by a part of the two divided bundles of PlayStation Moves or by itself that the company shipped. According to the spokesperson of Sony, the company had no intentions to release the sell through figures.

The company has not particularly said how many units of PlayStation 3 it has sold since it launched the PlayStation Moves.