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Sony has been granted permission by a federal judge to subpoena PayPal records of George Hotz, the hacker behind jailbreaking the company’s PlayStation 3 game console.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, who probes the financial crisis, subpoenaed Goldman Sachs Group over its failure to hand in the relevant documents to the panel. Instead of providing the necessary files and grant interviews in connection with the panel's probe Goldman flooded the panel with 2.5 billion pages of records.

Responding to the panel’s request for the documents the company produced 5 terabytes of records, with each terabyte containing 500 million pages of digitized records, FCIC Chairman Phil Angelides told reporters on a conference call.

A federal judge has cleared the way for the publisher of GQ magazine to subpoena Google and AT&T in an attempt to learn the identity of a computer intruder who managed to steal unpublished editorial material and published it in the Web.

 U.S. optical disc drive operations of Sony Corporation are under the probe of the regulators for possible violations of anti-trust laws. The company reported that it had received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division.

Sony Optiarc America supplies a lineup of optical disc drives, including those for DVDs, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs and Blu-ray discs.

"Other countries are also seeking information on the state of competition in optical disc drives," Sony spokesperson said.