Sony said that it expects the cleanup cost from the data breaches it's suffered to cost at least $171 million. Sony said the data breach costs will affect revenues for its fiscal 2011 year, which ends on March 31, 2012.
According to a statement released by Sony's investor relations group, "based on information currently available to Sony, our currently known costs associated with the unauthorized network access are estimated to be approximately 14 billion yen," or about $171 million.