It's official: Sony f'ed up

[Taro Toporific]

Sony Appears to Name Howard Stringer's Successor
hollywoodreporter.com | 3/10/2011
It was announced Thursday that Kazuo Hirai will head up the new Consumer Products and Services Group, with a view to the top job.
TOKYO -- Sony appears to be lining up Kazuo Hirai, current head of its gaming division, as the replacement for Howard Stringer, its 69-year-old current CEO, as it announced a corporate reorganization Thursday.
The Network Products Services division, which includes the PlayStation operations, is to be merged with the main consumer electronics division from April 1 to form a Consumer Products & Services Group -- to be headed by Hirai, in probable preparation for the top job...more...

Sony Corp. Reorganizes, Will Operate as Two Groups
dailytech.com | March 10, 2011
...Sir Howard Stringer, Sony Corp's CEO, chairman, and president, will remain at the helm of the company. Meanwhile, Kazuo Hirai, currently executive vice president, will head up the Consumer Products & Services Group, while Hiroshi Yoshioka, a current executive deputy president, will lead the other new wing...more...

[Taro Toporific]

[Marked Trail]

[Doctor Stop]

"It's a [fucking] Sony."

[Taro Toporific]

"It's a [fucking] Sony."

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[SIZE="3"] 2nd Sony Service Is Hacked[/SIZE]
2011/05/03 08:37
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Hackers who targeted Sony Corp. may have stolen personal data for customers from a second online service, bringing the potential number of compromised accounts to over 100 million.
Sony Online Entertainment, a San Diego-based subsidiary that makes multiplayer games, said it has suspended access to its services overnight between Sunday and Monday after discovering personal information from 24.6 million accounts had been stolen. The information included names, addresses, birthdates and other personal details.
The company also said a database from 2007 containing credit card numbers and expiration dates on non-U.S. customers may also have been compromised in the attack. Hackers may also have gained access to 10,700 direct debit records of customers in Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, the company said...more...

[Coligny]

Better get to the supermarket to stock on popcorn...

[ChargerCarl]

This shit is fucked

[sublight]

This is turning into one of those typical Japanese scandals that dribble out over weeks like a loose shit.

Day 1: Ok, that bit is true, but that's all. You can stop investigating now.
Day 2: Ok, that other part's also true, but that's all. You can stop investigating now.
Day 3: Ok, that other thing's true too, but that's all. You can stop investigating now.

And on and on and on. Like a 4-year-old who can't admit he was caught red-handed.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Sony Customers Furious Over PlayStation Hacking (Text and audio)

Sony is still trying to determine how hackers broke into its networks two weeks ago. They had access, apparently, to personal information from about 100 million customer accounts, people who play games using the company's Playstation and its online gaming system. Many of those gamers are angry with the way Sony is handling the breech. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

[Coligny]

And now they are blaming 'Anonymous' for this sh1t:

"What is becoming more and more evident is that Sony has been the victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack designed to steal personal and credit card information for illegal purposes"

carefully planned,
very professional,
highly sophisticated

Not exactly the words anybody would use to describe Anonymous...

[Taro Toporific]

[SIZE="3"]Exclusive: Third attack against Sony planned[/SIZE]
CNET News | May 5, 2011 4:36 PM PDT --A group of hackers says it is planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach.
An observer of the Internet Relay Chat channel used by the hackers told CNET today that a third major attack is planned this weekend against Sony's Web site. The people involved plan to publicize all or some of the information they are able to copy from Sony's servers, which could include customer names, credit card numbers, and addresses, according to the source. The hackers claim they currently have access to some of Sony's servers...more...

[American Oyaji]

[Coligny]

(...)

Since they were just re-hacked (sort of) because of their password reset modus operandi...

Pretty much... THIS...

[Taro Toporific]

Sony sees third year of red ink
japantimes May 24, 2011
...The loss would be the company's biggest since the \293.3 billion one it posted in the business year ended in March 1995.
The electronics giant has been in the red on a net balance basis since fiscal 2008...more...

[matsuki]

Kinda weird they are pulling this with the PS when their new line of Xperia phones can be unlocked by Sony for the same kind of usage as they are putting a stop to with the PS.

[2triky]

Sony Pictures hacked by Lulz Security, 1,000,000 passwords claimed stolen

June 2nd 2011

Breaking News

Oh, Sony -- not again. We've just received numerous tips that Lulz Security has broken into SonyPictures.com, where it claims to have stolen the personal information of over 1,000,000 users -- all stored (disgracefully) in plain text format. Lulz claims the heist was performed with a simple SQL injection -- just like we saw the last time around. A portion of the group's exploit is posted online in a RAR file, which contains over 50,000 email / password combos of unfortunate users. We've downloaded this file (at our own risk, mind you) and can verify these sensitive bits are now in the wild, though it remains unclear if what's published matches reality. In addition to user information, the group has blurted out over 20,000 Sony music coupons, and the admin database (including email addresses and passwords) for BMG Belgium employees. Fresh off the heels of the PlayStation Network restoration, we're guessing the fine folks in Sony's IT department are now surviving solely on adrenaline shots.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/02/sony-pictures-hacked-by-lulz-security-1-000-000-passwords-claim/

[Adhesive]

Sony Pictures hacked by Lulz Security, 1,000,000 passwords claimed stolen

June 2nd 2011

Breaking News

Oh, Sony -- not again. We've just received numerous tips that Lulz Security has broken into SonyPictures.com, where it claims to have stolen the personal information of over 1,000,000 users -- all stored (disgracefully) in plain text format. Lulz claims the heist was performed with a simple SQL injection -- just like we saw the last time around. A portion of the group's exploit is posted online in a RAR file, which contains over 50,000 email / password combos of unfortunate users. We've downloaded this file (at our own risk, mind you) and can verify these sensitive bits are now in the wild, though it remains unclear if what's published matches reality. In addition to user information, the group has blurted out over 20,000 Sony music coupons, and the admin database (including email addresses and passwords) for BMG Belgium employees. Fresh off the heels of the PlayStation Network restoration, we're guessing the fine folks in Sony's IT department are now surviving solely on adrenaline shots.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/02/sony-pictures-hacked-by-lulz-security-1-000-000-passwords-claim/

Wow, that's crazy that they didn't immediately beef-up security for the databases of all their companies. WTF is going on over there?

[Taro Toporific]

Wow, that's crazy that they didn't immediately beef-up security for the databases of all their companies. WTF is going on over there?

They're all 'tards.

[Coligny]

They're all 'tards.

Nope... tards would have unplugged the cord to the server immediately and started to suck the wallplug to get the information back from the hackers...

So in fact... it would have been a better option...

The guys from Sony are way way waaaaayyyy further down below for the quality of their response to the problem...

[2triky]

Wow, that's crazy that they didn't immediately beef-up security for the databases of all their companies. WTF is going on over there?

Yeah, it really seems like amateur hour over there...and that's being kind.

[Mike Oxlong]

Nintendo survives hacker attack...

[Coligny]

Nintendo survives hacker attack...

So now it's enough to patch a server against a decade old bug like SQL injection in order to make the news ?

I'm starting to think that my ability to pee without hitting the seat makes me front page material...

[Coligny]

Nintendo survives hacker attack...

Seems... Nintendo didun't survive the attack either...
Them anonymous h4x0r3rs will start to really piss off the real hackers soon (those that hack for the muney but STFU to preserve the goldmine) and it might get ugly...

[Catoneinutica]

Seems... Nintendo didun't survive the attack either...
Them anonymous h4x0r3rs will start to really piss off the real hackers soon (those that hack for the muney but STFU to preserve the goldmine) and it might get ugly...

Are we talking quick SVO-LBA or OTP-SEA roundtrips?

[Taro Toporific]

[SIZE="3"]AGAIN!![/SIZE]
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Hackers claim to have hit Sony again
WASHINGTON | Mon Jun 6, 2011 5:01pm EDT(Reuters) --- Hackers calling themselves Lulz Security said on Monday that they had broken into Sony Corp computer systems again, and posted the results on the Internet.
The group, which has claimed credit for a prior attack on Sony's systems
...more...
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[2triky]

Rumor: Sony Hacker Arrested After Leak of Developer Source Code
Member of LulzSec group taken into custody earlier today, according to IRC chat log.

June 6, 2011
by Michael Thomsen

Earlier today one of the Sony hackers from the group LulzSec (Lulz Security) is said to have been arrested, according to a report from news site The Epoch Times. LulzSec is thought to be the group responsible for hacking the PlayStation Network in April.

According to the report, which is based on a chat log taken from an IRC server that was obtained by a security tools group, LulzSec cracked Sony's Developer Network and uploaded copies of the code onto a number of file sharing websites. The full implications of having access to this code are unclear but at the very least it would mean potential hackers could interface with the PSN using the privileges given developers.

The report claims the hacker has been taken into custody by the FBI. Neither Sony nor any law enforcement agency has made any statements regarding the matter.

Source: IGN

[Kuang_Grade]

Just finished watching Sony's E3 press conference from yesterday, and I'm unimpressed with Sony US's apology for the whole PSN debacle. I wasn't expecting much, but 'sorry for the anxiety we've caused' is a pretty weak sauce. It would have been nice if they said something like 'we've learned a lot from this and we promise to do better in the future' but apparently that's too much to ask for one of the largest data breaches in US history and it is much easier to say crap like 'we love our customers and the network activity level is up to 90% of what it was before the breach' and then start talking about a bunch of 3D shit no one asked for. But apparently, Jack Tretton, Sony's head US SCEA guy, felt that it was serious enough occasion to justify wearing a tie (albeit a blue one with a salmon colored shirt), to which his tie-less boss, Kazuo Hirai, made fun of later on.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Well, if nothing else, I'm glad for this news conference because until now this series of attacks had me wondering what the hell the hackers had against the kid from "Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo."

[Mulboyne]

SEGA now hacked

[2triky]

SEGA now hacked

Indeed. In fact there has been an incredible rash of hacks, across many companies in the video game space...Sony, Nintendo, Square Enix, Bioware, Bethesda, Codemasters...