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It's time for another installment in the never-ending saga of Sony's security blunders. Hackers have reportedly infiltrated the company's movie site, accessing the sensitive information of more than a million accounts. The group, known as LulzSec, claims to have breached SonyPictures.com and swiped users' passwords, email and home addresses, dates of birth, along with any information submitted as part of Sony's data opt-ins.
Detailing the attack on PasteBin, LulzSec said it penetrated the company's infrastructure with a rudimentary SQL injection. Described as "one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities," the group said it accessed everything with a single injection. In a truly embarrassing discovery, LulzSec reports that none of the user information was encrypted. In other words, Sony stored more than million user passwords in plaintext.
"Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?" the group said. "This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it." LulzSec has published the stolen data on The Pirate Bay. Besides tons of sensitive user information, the group included some 20,000 Sony music coupons, 67,000 "music codes," as well as the layout of Sony's database in case you want to pillage it yourself.
This breach follows a string of recent misfortunes. Sony was forced to disable its PSN and Qriocity services for more than a month after a massive security breach that affected tens of millions of users. That fiasco is projected to cost the company some $171 million and constributes to a massive $3.1 billion loss for its fiscal year 2010. Sony has faced several other attacks in recent months, which are becoming too numerous to list.
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My God.
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Not correct...It was on a mainstream news propa-tainment program last night in NZ. But i agree it is all for nought.
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Mizzou said:
Just received my official Welcome Back email from Sony for the two free games. First step is to log onto the Playstation Store for the download, was greeted with An error has occurred (80710D36) message. Did a quick Google and it looks like others on the gaming forums are having the same problem ... and the hits just keep a comin'
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Cota said:
On the other hand...
Sony Pictures as well," Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO, and Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures, said in a joint statement. "We have confirmed that a breach has occurred and have taken action to protect against further intrusion."Yes, they enabled Windows Firewall.
Lulz
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I will never mess with GeoHot...
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Mizzou said:
Things are looking a little better, able to sign on this morning and start the download for inFamous. When I attempted to to download the second game wipEout HD, hit the download button got a "Not at this Time" message. Navigated through the Playstation Store back to this point and the option to pick the second game was gone. Bounced off of Account Management a few times but finally got through Transaction Management to the Download List and was able to complete the downloads from there.
Both games are now installed, somehow getting something tangible for free always makes you feel better
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@Mizzou: On ThePirateBay you can do just the same, hope everyone feels the same about getting every bit of personal information on the internet for a couple bucks and feel better.
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Come on Sony; I thought you asian guys were smarter than this... while I disagree with Lipe123 who said "...Sony has been shafting people for too long, they had this coming. The best part is they got hacked jsut recently and STILL didn't do a thing, the company stinks and deserve this..." I don't think they deserved this. Personally I think it's a team of Halo playing di@k heads just trying to take out the competition.
I've been buying Sony products since I can remember and this won't stop me. Anyone who stored their credit card number is an ***** anyway(too lazy to get your wallet?). I'm still playing COD, AC and BFBC online so fu@k it.
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Hack sony as much as you want, i will keep my ps3 and luckily my account never got hacked.
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Hack sony as much as you want, i will keep my ps3 and luckily my account never got hacked.
Don't worry, there'll be plenty of opportunity it for that yet....
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All of this could have been avoided if Sony could just put on a smaller set and apologize and open the PS3 back up. You don't wrong nerds and geeks and get away with it lol. It is funny they thought they could. Even against governments throughout history it is ultimately the people who win. Not to mention when the PS3 was allowed to be changed I know at least 20 friends who suddenly wanted one. Then when it was denied they changed their mind and didn't buy one or any of the games they wanted to buy with it. Seems to me if they hadn't grilled the issue their sales would have went up. haha
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