Sony Hacked....again

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Almost like clockwork, another attack on Sony has taken place. Following up on its threat from late last month, hacker group LulzSec has once again hacked Sony, and this time the damage could be more serious than its previous attack on Sony BMG. In a press release, the group claims it broke into SonyPictures.com and, among other things, compromised the personal data of more than one million users', including home addresses, e-mail addresses, passwords, and more.
The group has not taken responsibility for the attack on the PlayStation Network in April. The exact target of its recent threat was unclear, although it has since stated on its Twitter account several times that it wasn't going after gaming services. The group recently made headlines by hacking PBS and posting a spurious story about rapper Tupac Shakur being found alive.

LulzSec says it did not steal all of the personal information hosted on Sony Pictures' website due to a lack of resources. Regardless, that's not a very reassuring statement, and it's incredibly alarming that Sony continues to be targeted by hackers with repeated success. In this case, a SQL injection -- a very simple type of attack -- was successfully used to gain access to "everything." Worse yet, users' passwords were allegedly stored in plaintext, meaning they were not encrypted as one would expect them to be.

Sony brought the PlayStation Network back online several weeks ago followed by the PlayStation Store last night. Since the attack that forced Sony to bring PSN down in the first place, the Japan-based company has been the target of hackers several more times.

http://www.1up.com/news/sony-pictures-hacked-users-personal-data-compromised

 

So who here wants to buy anything on PSN anymore?  Not me.

[MCD]

Worse yet, users' passwords were allegedly stored in plaintext, meaning they were not encrypted as one would expect them to be.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

As I said on the PSN thread, hackers are going to be fucking with Sony for a very long time.

Sony's only hope is that the Church of Scientology does something especially heinous again.

[Sho Nuff]

ONE MILLION USERS

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Can I still use Netflix without signing in on the PS3?  If so, I think I'll just completely nuke my account and be done with it.

I've got no confidence in Sony's capability to secure anything.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Can I still use Netflix without signing in on the PS3?  If so, I think I'll just completely nuke my account and be done with it.

I've got no confidence in Sony's capability to secure anything.

Fuck you, I have it on good authority* that Sony is implementing virtually impenetrable security after this PSN hack.

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* - The internetz

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[TripleA]

[Joe Molotov]

90 percent of the time, their network is 100% secure.

[originalz]

The way that they talk about how they're going to "bring down Sony", makes me wonder if they're planning to hack and leak corporate secrets and extremely private information that actually could do some damage.  These password hacks are annoying but I can't see it actually causing any serious lasting damage to the company.

[The Sceneman]

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ONE MILLION USERS

WOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW

[fistfulofmetal]

I've got no confidence in Sony's capability to secure anything.

sony really isn't one entity though. each of these hacks have targeted a specific division, and they are all run pretty much independently of each other.

in reality - this could have happened to literally any company and i seriously doubt your information is any more secure anywhere else.

basically - if hackers want to hack, there's nothing that can be done to stop it.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Yeah it can happen to any company out there but these people are pretty focused on Sony at the moment and they've been successful even when giving out warnings beforehand.  I think I'll just avoid PSN for now.