MUMBAI: Sony Corporation's application for an extension of the deadline to file its quarterly securities report for the third quarter ending 31 March, 2015 has been approved by the director-general of the Kanto Finance Bureau of Japan.

The deadline has been extended from 16 February to 31 March.

As was reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, the company had filed for the extension of deadline on 23 January, 2015 owing to the cyber attack at its Hollywood film unit, which compromised "a large amount of data" in its systems.