Just days after the playstation network came back online after an attack compromised 77 million user accounts, two sony properties were hit by sql. The target is and it compromised over 1,000,000 userspersonal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses,dates of birth, and all sony optin data associated with their accounts. Also compromised all admin details of sony picturesincluding passwords along with 75,000 music codes and 3. Kretsinger faces 15 years in prison for the sony breach, and. Sony said the data breach costs will affect revenues for its fiscal 2011. Data breach sony woes continue with sql injection attacks. The playstation breach involved customer data, so sony customers are already wary of sony s cyber security methods. The method by which data was taken from sony is still not. Sony pictures falls victim to major data breach hacking group lulzsec claims it has accessed personal data on more than 1 million people. Hacking group lulzsec claims it has accessed personal data on more. They obtained access to this information by using a sql injection vulnerability. Whats worse is that every bit of data we took wasnt encrypted. Companywide consequences of sony data breach promisec. Sony pictures hacked and database leaked by lulzsec.
Sony pictures falls victim to major data breach computerworld. Lulz claims the heist was performed with a simple sql injection. Hacker group lulzsec releases 150,000 sony pictures records, including usernames and passwords, in latest setback for consumer electronics giant. To give you some idea of the extent of the sql injection problem. Sony music japan hacked through sql injection flaw naked security. Sql injection, or sqli, is an increasingly common technique used by hackers to break into systems. Sony suffered a major hacker breach last week, but much misinformation and panic is being spread about it. Well known easy to execute you basically need a browser when successful they provide rich information to the attacker it is estimated that over 75% of all commercial web sites are still vulnerable today to injection based attacks. Hackers lulzsec say sony pictures attacked, 1 million. That is the question of who hacked into sonys playstation network. Sony music japan hacked through sql injection flaw naked. Sony music japan has been hacked by a group known as lulz security. Lulzsecs sony hack really was as simple as it claimed.
Lulz security claims fresh hack of 1 million sony accounts jun. Massive security breach at sony heres what you need to. Sony pictures hacked by lulz security, 1,000,000 passwords. Sony hacked repeatedly as new hacker group emerges. The same group that targeted earlier this month used a sql injection attack to expose data on sony. Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks. Lulzsec also downloaded 54mb of source code for the sony computer entertainment developer network. Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext, which means its just a matter of taking it. Just days after the playstation network came back online after an. Weve downloaded this file at our own risk, mind you and can verify. Lulzsec information security case study volume 3 sony tcdi. The allure of basic hacktivist data breaches drew in lots of.
Sony pictures entertainment was the target of a security breach that saw unreleased films, unproduced scripts, salary, medical, and background checks for personnel distributed on the internet. The group is credited with sql injection attacks against sony websites in. The allure of basic hacktivist data breaches drew in lots of nonexperts who were easily caught. Lulzsec hacker arrested over sony attack technology. Lulzsec hacker arrested over sony attack technology the guardian. The latest breach did not expose sensitive user details, but adds to the growing list of sony websites vulnerable to sql. Another concern for the movie production company is that their marketing studies have been leaked by the hackers through torrenting sites, where anyone can download and access them. Sql injection is a method where harmful database queries are executed against a. Sony pictures entertainment was the target of a security breach that saw unreleased films. Sql injection, or sqli, is an increasingly common technique used by hackers. Lulz security advertised its sony hack in an asciifestooned press release. Sony pictures hacked by lulz security, 1,000,000 passwords claimed stolen update. The latest breach did not expose sensitive user details, but adds to the.
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