Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, speaking to website Shacknews, suggests that PSN generates around $10 million in revenues and $3 million in profits per week. The service has already been down for over a week now.
According to data security research firm The Ponemon Institute, as quoted by Forbes, the average cost of a data breach involving a criminal act is currently $318 per record.
Forbes suggests that with 77 million registered accounts worldwide this creates a potential cost to Sony of over $24 billion.
PSN hack could cost Sony $24 billion | News
Quote Originally Posted by Sony
The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken.
Sony: Credit card data was encrypted | News