Japan

As Sony announces that the details of 70 million users of Sony’s PlayStation Network may have been stolen, we ask computer security experts what users need to do to protect their data.

Millions of PlayStation users have been warned that their personal information, including possibly their credit card details, may have been stolen after a hack attack hit the network.

The electronics giant Sony says it does not know when the Playstation Network will be available for its 70m users after suffering what the company described as an “external intrusion” last week.

Japan has banned people from entering a 12 mile evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant following the tsunami. People will now only be able to go there under Government supervision.

New footage has emerged of Japanese residents trying desperately to outrun the incoming tsunami, as huge torrents of water crash through a coastal town carrying houses and people in its wake.

The Fukushima incident is given the highest rating of 7, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says the amount of radioation at Chernobyl was ‘far higher’.

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck off the north east coast of Japan, as the region struggles to recover from last month’s devastating quake and tsunami. Alex Thomson speaks to people in Japan.

Liam Gallagher performs with his band Beady Eye at the Brixton Academy tonight in a concert to raise money for victims of last month’s Japan tsunami. Alex Thomson spoke to him after the sound check.

As Japan’s government rejects advice to widen the evacuation zone around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, a farmer in Iwate Prefecture tells Channel 4 News of life in the shadow of the crisis.

As the Japanese announce that four of the reactors at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will be decommissioned, an expert tells Channel 4 News the clean-up will take years and cost billions.

As extremely low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan are detected in Glasgow, Japanese residents tell Channel 4 News their fears over the ongoing crisis.

As plutonium radiation is discovered outside Japan’s Fukushima plant, Channel 4 News explains the long-term health risks of the fallout for generations to come.