Sony hacked once again By Asha
Sony’s Playstation.com is among the most visited 1100 websites in the world. The gaming site gets most of its traffic from USA following by Japan and UK. Italy and India make up the remaining top 5 positions. Due to a sophisticated hacking attack, the Sony Playstation Network had been crippled for more than 3 weeks. It finally came back online on May 17.
But it seems hackers will not leave Sony alone. Sony had announced that they needed to taken down the Playstation Network for 30 minutes on May 19 to fix another security glitch. That was the sixth attack on Sony.
Now, a seventh attack. Security firm Sophos has detailed how Sony BMG Greece has been hacked
“ In what seems to be a never ending nightmare it appears that the website of Sony BMG in Greece has been hacked and information dumped.
An anonymous poster has uploaded a user database to pastebin.com, including the usernames, real names and email addresses of users registered on SonyMusic.gr.
It appears someone used an automated SQL injection tool to find this flaw. It's not something that requires a particularly skillful attacker, but simply the diligence to comb through Sony website after website until a security flaw is found. “ (5/23/2011) |