At first, Sony will still have to manage a new mass piracy. This time, it would be the servers of Sony Pictures would have been affected. Another bad news for Sony who learns that a group of hackers called LulzSec was introduced on the server via a SQL injection SonyPictures.com malicious. Hackers who gained access to a database containing names, addresses, passwords and other personal information of about 1 million members.
According LulzSec, which describes the vulnerability exploited by boat, this information was stored without any encryption. These pirates are a priori content to steal information from 52,000 accounts. They published a collection to prove their claim
During the same attack, the hackers were also able to obtain personal information about employees of Sony BMG in Belgium and the Netherlands, Pas, and 75 000 music codes and 3.5 million warrants music. According to experts in computer security, the attack would LulzSec credible even though it is still unproven.
A spokesman for Sony Pictures said that investigations were ongoing and that emergency measures will be taken if the intrusion is detected. There are now over a dozen major attacks that have been incurred by the services since the Sony PlayStation Network which the firm recovers only sounded. Hackers around the world seem to harm the Japanese firm.
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