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Kitguru reported earlier this week that Lulzsec, a group of skilled hackers, claimed to have compromised Sony servers. Last night Sony confirmed this was true, saying they were the victim, yet again, of an attack.

Michael Lynton chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment said “The cybercrime wave that has affected Sony companies and a number of government agencies, businesses and individuals in recent months has hit Sony Pictures as well.”

They added “Yesterday afternoon a group of criminal hackers known as “LulzSec” claimed to have breached some of our websites. We have confirmed that a breach has occurred and have taken action to protect against further intrusion. We also retained a respected team of experts to conduct the forensic analysis of the attack, which is ongoing. In addition, we have contacted the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and are working with them to assist in the identification and apprehension of those responsible for this crime.”

By now we would assume that many people have lost faith in Sony to keep any proficient level of security and all they can say, yet again is “We deeply regret and apologize for any inconvenience caused to consumers by this cybercrime.”

What is compromised this time? Lulzsec say they infiltrated the Sonypictures.com website and gained access to information such as email addresses, home addresses, passwords and even birth dates of over 1,000,000 user accounts. The kicker? Lulzsec said that the data wasn't even encrypted.

“…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. This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it.”

Sony are reeling from a continual barrage of attacks, and this is the latest in a long line of security issues for the Japanese electronics giant.

KitGuru says: The company has created a new position to help with the continual breaches, ‘Chief Information Security Officer' – and we pity their workload right now.

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Sony hacked yet again, info of 1 million customers compromised https://www.kitguru.net/channel/carl/sony-hacked-yet-again-info-of-1-million-customers-compromised/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/carl/sony-hacked-yet-again-info-of-1-million-customers-compromised/#respond Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:51:22 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=47764 Sony's miseries continue with the latest news that they have been hacked, again, losing the information of more than 1 million customers. Yesterday we reported that LulzSec, another hacking group had said they broke into Sony's servers. These claims have been verified and it highlights that Sony are not yet secure. LulzSec have attacked U.S. …

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Sony's miseries continue with the latest news that they have been hacked, again, losing the information of more than 1 million customers. Yesterday we reported that LulzSec, another hacking group had said they broke into Sony's servers. These claims have been verified and it highlights that Sony are not yet secure.

LulzSec have attacked U.S. PBS television and Fox.com in the past and they have published the names, birth dates, addresses, emails and phone numbers of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony.

LulzSec issued a statement “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?”

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The security breach couldn't come at a worse time for Sony, who have been reeling in recent weeks, after multiple attacks to their networks across the globe. Sony have said they are looking into the breach and have not yet issued anymore details. Sony shares have fallen 0.3 percent today. Reuters have confirmed the authenticity of the data LulzSec published, confirming it is true.

John Bumgarner, the chief technology officer for the U.S. Cyber Consequences unit, a non profit group who analyse web threats said he wasn't surprised that Sony had been compromised. He said their systems were unsecure and that he had identified more vulnerabilities, even up to last weekend when it should have been tightened up.

LulzSec are another high profile hacking group who have targeted several large businesses in recent months. They have broken into Fox.com websites and published data about contestants for upcoming show ‘X Factor'. They also defaced the U.S. PBS television network websites, posting stolen data from their servers.

KitGuru says: Sony will need to issue statements soon regarding the LulzSec attacks, as they have been under pressure for ‘slow' actions after the recent Playstation Network hacks.

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