Sony has revealed the identity protection support it had promised US PSN members whose personal information was compromised in the attack on PSN.
The firm is offering all account holders a complimentary 12 month identity theft protection programme, AllClear ID Plus, through Debix. It includes a $1 million identity theft insurance policy, covering identity restoration and legal defence costs, as well as reimbursement of lost wages for 12 months after a case of identity theft.
The offering also includes cyber monitoring and surveillance, including criminal websites and law enforcement data, with users sent monthly status reports and promptly notified if evidence is found that their personal information has been compromised. It also offers access to private investigators and identity restoration services.
Users will have to sign up directly through AllClear Plus ID, with Sony promising to email customers explaining the process in the coming days. The service will run for 12 months from the day of registration, and users must sign up before June 18.
Sony is to offer similar protection to its customers worldwide, with details to be revealed gradually on a local level. Starting with the US makes sense: in his letter earlier this week to the US House Of Representatives, Kaz Hirai said that of the 12.3 million account holders who had credit card details on file, some 5.6 million were US citizens.
In a post on the EU PlayStation Blog, SCEE head of communications Nick Caplin wrote: " I can assure you that here in the SCEE region, we are working incredibly hard to offer you something very similar. As is often the case here, with so many countries in our region, this is a very complicated thing to achieve, but we are close."
Source: PlayStation Blog