Sachinism Posted June 2, 2011 Posted June 2, 2011 Sony just can't catch a break. Still reeling from the massive Playstation Network hack that shut down their online service for weeks, the media giant has apparently fallen victim to another cyberattack - one that may have compromised as many as a million users' personal information. Sony has yet to comment, but a group of hackers called "Lulzsec" claims to have broken into several of Sony's sites and made off with tons of data. Lulzsec - the same group that posted fake stories on PBS.com over the weekend - has been promising an attack on Sony for days. After being challenged to show what they found, the group today posted links on Twitter to samples of information they compromised on internal Sony networks and Web sites, including Sony Pictures, Sony Music Belgium and Sony Music Netherlands. On the site Pastebin, Lulzsec wrote: "We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users' personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts. Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 'music codes' and 3.5 million 'music coupons'." Getting the information was not that complex, Lulzsec claims. The group said it gained access to SonyPictures.com with a single SQL injection. "What's worse is that every bit of data we took wasn't encrypted. Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext, which means it's just a matter of taking it," reads the post. "This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it." ------ Sony getting assraped here Lulzsec have released all info here: http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/
lonestarranger Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 :( ... I dunno why Sony is being targeted though. I'd love to see how M$ would fare if Xbox Live was attacked..
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