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Sony gets hacked in three more countries
OCCASIONAL GAMING VENDOR Sony has shut down some operations after suffering yet more hack attacks.
Licking its wounds yesterday after estimating a bill of £106 million for its hacked Playstation Network (PSN), Sony has encountered further hacking exploits. It shuttered networks in Canada, Thailand and Indonesia after it detected intrusions that attacked its services.
According to Bloomberg, the hackers managed to pilfer the personal information of 2,000 Sony Ericsson mobile communications customers in Canada. The security of Sony's online Thai services was breached to make it send phishing spam emails. In Indonesia, Sony shut down its shop because of another undisclosed attack.
"Sony is investigating whether the attacks discovered in the past week are related to each other," Sony spokesman Atsuo Omagari said.
"Sony hasn't found evidence to link those attacks to last month's intrusion into the Playstation Network," he added.
The Japanese company can add Canada, Thailand and Indonesia to an increasingly long list of countries where it has been affected by hacking attacks. In addition to Sony's PSN going down globally, Sony's Greek BMG music site was hacked a couple of days ago and the perpetrators posted the personal information of registered Sony music users. The company also had its Japanese music web site hacked by an SQL injection attack and the hackers in that incident boasted that they could see other databases that were potentially vulnerable.
From suing hacker Geohot for modding its Playstation 3 console to losing at least £106 million to hack attacks that are continuing, Sony will want to get this over as soon as possible. µ
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Well, it's better that Sony gets hacked by guys doing it for the lol instead of others who would do it discretly and effectively steal the customer's money. If Sony can't protect its customers, that's much worse than some kids hacking them for fun. The players may be affected by the hacking, but they would be worse off if Sony had been allowed to get away with poor security.
Apparently Sony has poor security, how long before the PSN is down for weeks again. I think I'm moving away from Sony, I think Xbox or maybe the new Wii 2 when it comes out. I think it looks pretty nice, read this..
http://www.tech-adventures.com/2011/04/nintendo-says-wii-2-is-in-works.html
When they, Sony, anger the hacking community (which is pretty much their customers), this is the result. I sure hope other companies learn from this fiasco. In the end, Sony might loose big time in terms of online (shopping, gaming, etc.)
Sony is a company that goes around demanding IP addresses of people discussing a hack, has poor server security and no encryption on its customers details. No amount of suffering can make me feel bad for this money grabbing corporation.
If this is how they treat a community, I'm glad it's biting back!
The only good hacker is dead.
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You know im really getting sick of hearing about sony servers getting hacked. I mean come on, you hackers can do it but what is it going to change? Sony is not going to lift its suit against goehot. And by me being a psn user im really sick and tired of it all. I wish we could use our ps3 the way we want but things should have kept it underground.
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Umm, they already dropped the case against geohot mate...
You know im really getting sick of hearing about sony servers getting hacked. I mean come on, you hackers can do it but what is it going to change? Sony is not going to lift its suit against goehot. And by me being a psn user im really sick and tired of it all. I wish we could use our ps3 the way we want but things should have kept it underground.