TOKYO - Japanese electronics company, Sony Corp. estimates that annual losses would have reached 3.2 billion U.S. dollars. In fact, before the company was optimistic can make a profit.
Sony hopes will get the profit at 860 million U.S. dollars in the fiscal year ended March 2011 and the end. However, management said the losses could not be avoided due to the elimination of tax credits worth 4.4 billion U.S. dollars recorded in the previous quarter.
Not only that, other expenses should also be borne Sony. The company's production was hit by the earthquake and tsunami. The earthquake on March 11, 2011 and then destroy the factories in the northeast Japan and affect Sony's production chain. Natural disasters also result in lower consumer spending. Then, the company also had to face a series of computer hacking attacks that break through the PlayStation Network service user data.
Sony's attempt to solve problems hacker attacks that cause paralysis of the PlayStation Network service in late May 2011. Cyber attacks include the theft of personal data including names, passwords, credit card numbers, and the identity of more than 100 million user accounts.
Sony said the theft of data that causes the loss of 170 million U.S. dollars, at least in operating profit from insurance and also replacement of the damage. Sony, among others, producing the PlayStation and Vaio laptop computer
