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Sony is not having a good year. As the company scrambles to get the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service back online, it's suffering from yet another security breach.

PBS officials say hackers have cracked the network's website. The hackers apparently posted a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand....

Sony on Tuesday reported another security breach, saying 8,500 user accounts had been compromised. The company said that Sony Music Entertainment Greece learned about the data breach late Sunday. It affected artist websites where fans can sign up for newsletters.

A computer hacker who calls himself the Jester claimed responsibility for the cyber attack which took down the WikiLeaks site Sunday, shortly before it started posting hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.

NASA briefly broke with the standard space jibber jabber, jammed on the cap locks, and began alerting its followers with repeated messages about "BRAND NEW PLASMA FLAT SCREEN TV!!! WHOLESALE LIST!"

For Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, it was a global virtual black eye.