Sony Pictures and Sony BMG hacked, 1 million user's details stolen

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A few days ago, a hacker group known as "LulzSec" claimed that they would launch a huge attack against Sony. It appears this group was true to their word as they have just released a large cache of data that was stolen from Sony Pictures and Sony BMG.

In what they are calling "Sownage", LulzSec claim that the whole hack was done via a very simple SQL injection, which gave them complete access to private data from over 1 million users. The data includes everything from email addresses and passwords to home addresses and dates of birth. Additionally, this data was apparently not encrypted and has since been uploaded to various file sharing websites and torrents.

Greetings folks. We're LulzSec, and welcome to Sownage. Enclosed you will

find various collections of data stolen from internal Sony networks and websites,

all of which we accessed easily and without the need for outside support or money.

We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users'

personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses,

dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts.

Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures

(including passwords) along with 75,000 "music codes" and 3.5 million "music coupons".

This is yet more bad news for Sony, who have been suffering numerous data breaches lately, the most notable of which being the PSN attack which occurred in April of this year. Not all of the one million customer details have been leaked online, however a considerable amount has been released. The details of the hack have also been released and at the time of writing, it is still open, meaning additional customer details could be taken at any time.

If you have an account with any of Sony's Pictures of BMG websites, it is strongly advisable to change your password immediately, however note that Sony will likely take down the sites soon, much like they did when the PlayStation Network was compromised.

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[DKT27]

Wonder if this will ever end. :rolleyes:

Just TPB "Sownage" to get the torrent. :P

[toyo]

I'd suggest that every curious guy that feels like downloading these from TPB use a VPN or something. As for myself, this has gone a little too far and will most probably have repercussions on the casual filesharers.

[DKT27]

Don't think it will have any effect on filesharing, TPB is used by many in past t post these sort of things. But on the other side, I think threatening Sony is enough. They are famous in hacking community though, every good hacking group would be feeling an urge to try their skills on Sony, will take time before this comes to a halt.

[toyo]

These Sony hacking events will be used as proof of what hackers can do unrestricted; the fact that such confidential information was shared on TBP will only strengthen the idea that hackers and filesharers are just different faces of the same social scourge. Give it time and you will see it exploited.

[Ambrocious]

These Sony hacking events will be used as proof of what hackers can do unrestricted; the fact that such confidential information was shared on TBP will only strengthen the idea that hackers and filesharers are just different faces of the same social scourge. Give it time and you will see it exploited.

I tend to agree with this. This will be used to impose more harsh restrictions on file sharing. As always, the ultimate goal is to bring about Internet 2 which in the case of the United States at least will be pretty much government regulated. Freedom on the internet will be over...or at least altered for however long that form of tyranny lasts.

[HX1]

But you know the whole planet thinks like Nancy Grace... redundant circle of slurried clusterf____.. to the point of dizzying sickness and the ultimate overload which makes you HURL.. ' UggGhhh look at that isn't that .. Uggghhh.. ' while half the planet engorges themselves on the intake of the event and perpetual motion of the escalation..

' I mean.. wanna exploit me because I have earrings and piercings.. maybe this means that I am a dangerous felon.. a murderer, a rapist, a theif, a dopehead.. that I stab myself with needles just to bleed.. smell and taste my own blood.. maybe mad with power and insanity.. MAYBE.. someone will exploit my gothic clothes and latex... my light skin .. and my tanned body when I so choose.. My 5' dreads... my shaved head.. my colr sex and breed.. Maybe then they will say I am a whore....

Instead, I am me.. I find beauty.. in my freedom I find ascension... in a world tethered and torn.. imprisoned and warned.. Yet somehow to have anyone come near.. the slightest touch decays and irradiates..... I am one.. '

Point being the very same thing the two of you stated... above.. People as a whole are very under developed because of many factors which involve it... anyone truly there would know what all you see... I would be willing to bet .. They know.. but they don't care because simply it has already been done in the past .. It will be done again.. and will continue more than likely...

Nobody will ever exist doing anything on this planet that through some manner of twisted events .. may or can/will piss someone else off... bottom-line its an effect of being alive and a fact of the diversity which covers this planet...

Some things however are too horrendous and unjust.. wrong for what they represent and impose... an actuated balance which can be easily swayed or tipped...one that should be considered and given the time involved.. should never occur nor be allowed to take center stage.. Questioning everything.. and even in its direction... and relativity to others events.. is a good thing.. we will never evolve as long as we empower ourselves to keep things easy...We create prisons and laws.. false perceptions.. we even turn our backs on truly creating a force or an authority to procure our security from those encroachments.. We are afraid of what we can do.. what we become.. we stagnate for thousands of years in an effort to get somewhere.. telling ourselves this new coat of paint we just put on is civility... Hope exploited.. faith.. anything empowering for that control..

'The only chains I will be holding will be the ones I am beating it back with..'

.. Probably don't care.... :huh: