instead of a banner year,2011 produced a near-perfect storm of environmental calamities for sony.for starters,in march 2011,japan was devastated by a mammoth earth quake and tsunami. The disaster forced sony to shutter 10 plants,disrupting operations and the flow of sony products worldwide.in april,a hacking attack on the company's internet entertainment services the second-largest online data breach in U.S. History-forced the company to shut down its playstation net work. Only four months later,fires set by rioters in london destroyed a sony warehouse and an estimated 25 million cds and dvds gut ting an inventory of 150 indenpendent labels. To round out the year floods in thailand shut down component plants there.