It just isn't Sony's year.....hacked again....

[Dragonsm]

Hackers claim more stolen info from Sony servers

A group of hackers said today that they have broken into several Sony Web sites and compromised the personal data of more Sony customers.

The group, which calls itself "Lulzsec," is the same group that posted fake news stories on PBS.com over the weekend.

They have been promising Sony attacks since this past weekend, a plan they called "the beginning of the end" for Sony. After being challenged to show what they found, the group today posted 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'."

The group said they didn't have the resources to copy all the information found, but is posting "samples" to prove their authenticity. The group claims they could have taken more, but that would have taken "several more weeks."

The files in the download appear to contain names, addresses, e-mail addresses and passwords, but it was unclear how many were in the sample provided by the group.

One file labeled Sony BMG Music Entertainment Belgium included this note: "This target gave us LOLs as it provided internal release dates of records, barcodes, sales reports, and plaintext Sony employee passwords."

Sony did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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."

[Scott K]

I hope these thugs get caught and get life sentences! Why do they think that its cool to cost a company billions of dollars, and more then likely 10's of thousands of jobs.

[smnduck]

Is any information realy safe on the internet? This is making me leary of online banking. If oour defense dept. is getting hacked you can bet that your bank is too.

[zamboni]

Store is back up on the PS3, yet no free games, like promised. They are gonna upset more people if they don't straighten up. I don't condone what hackers are doing, but man, live up to customer satisfaction.