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Hackers have attacked Sony and stolen the private details of more than a million people in the latest security breach to hit the electronics giant.
The latest hack comes just over a month after Sony's enormous PlayStation Network was attacked. In that incident the data of about 70m customers was stolen, in what is thought to have been the largest hack in history
The names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony were all published on the internet.
LulzSec, a hacker group, said it had infiltrated the firm's systems to prove how vulnerable they were to "simple attacks".
The data was apparently stolen from Sony Pictures, the company's entertainment distribution arm. The group has previously launched hacking attacks on the US broadcasters PBS television and Fox.com. In a message on Twitter, the group said: "1,000,000+ unencrypted users, unencrypted admin accounts, government and military passwords saved in plaintext. #PSN compromised. @Sony."
www.telegraph.co.uk
The latest hack comes just over a month after Sony's enormous PlayStation Network was attacked. In that incident the data of about 70m customers was stolen, in what is thought to have been the largest hack in history
The names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony were all published on the internet.
LulzSec, a hacker group, said it had infiltrated the firm's systems to prove how vulnerable they were to "simple attacks".
The data was apparently stolen from Sony Pictures, the company's entertainment distribution arm. The group has previously launched hacking attacks on the US broadcasters PBS television and Fox.com. In a message on Twitter, the group said: "1,000,000+ unencrypted users, unencrypted admin accounts, government and military passwords saved in plaintext. #PSN compromised. @Sony."
Sony hack: private details of million people posted online
Hackers have attacked Sony and stolen the private details of more than a million people in the latest security breach to hit the electronics giant.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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