Sony’s reputation as a computer security pygmy has deepened again, with the latest hack seeing it apparently lose a million user accounts to hackers.
Reportedly, hackers used yet another SQL injection attack to break into the database of SonyPictures.com, making off with the account details of a million users, including names, addresses, email addresses, and passwords, though mercifully not credit card details.
No confirmation is yet forthcoming from Sony, but the perpetrators have helpfully posted all the data obtained online, something unlikely to endear them to Sony customers.
The group claiming responsibility for this hack has also taken things a step further, having been publicly taunting and threatening Sony via Twitter for some time.
Some of their latest gloating:
“From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING. Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?
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 plain text, which means it’s just a matter of taking it.
This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it.”
Sony has now lost well over 100 million accounts to hackers – certainly an abject lesson in the wisdom of trusting big corporations to safeguard user data.
What? 1000000?! IT’S OVER 9000!
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Wow. Someone really hates Sony. Though I am confused… Isn’t the fact that they announced they did it enough grounds to arrest them for cyber-terrorism O.o I mean, I’ve always loved Sony, since the ps1, I’ve always preferred the ps products over the microsoft ones and the Nintendo ones. Sony’s just better. It’s unfortunate that someone or a group of people don’t like sony….. I bet it’s microsoft doing it >.>
To Sony: Please put character limitation in all your textboxes and have a user security page when accessing files….
It’s a great wakeup call to Sony and other companies. Stop scrimping on security and hire people in IT who know what the hell they are doing.
PocketStation
Aibo ‘suit
Rootkit
Memory Card erasing Demos
Playstation 2 HDD
Disc Read Errors
Laptop Battery Recall
Playstation 2 AC Adaptor Recall
Playstation 3 Linux
Didn’t kill em yet! Too Bad!