A subsidiary of Sony Corp called, So-net Entertainment ahs said that it has faced an online attack earlier this week and hackers were able to access customer rewards site and steal customers' redeemable gift points worth about $1,225.

The Internet service provider faced the breach after several days after Sony restored service to the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment online videogame services.

Keisuke Watabe, a spokesman at So-net Entertainment said, "Although we can't completely rule out the possibility that there is a connection with the PSN issue, the likelihood is low."

So-net issued a warning to its customers on Thursday saying that an intruder tried 10,000 times to access the provider's "So-net" point service. So-net said that the intruder had usernames of account holders and used automated software to find passwords until it found the correct one.

The company said that the points from the site were redeemed without permission. It also said that another 70 accounts were breached by the points were not redeemed and the hackers also compromised 90 email accounts on the site.

The site pointed that there is not information that the hackers gained access to names, addresses, birth dates or phone numbers. It said that the company noticed the breach on May 18 after receiving complaints from customers. It was found that the breach took place on May 16 and 17. The company halted the redeeming process after detecting the breach.

Sony’s major services faced a hacking attack last month in which hackers accessed user information of more than 100 million customers. The PlayStation Networks has been out of service since April. The service allows more than 77 million registered users to get together and play video games. The Station service, what connects about 24 million users has also been down since the breach. According to some reports Sony still does not have any idea about who accessed data on more than 100 million of its users.