LulzSec Claims Another Sony Hack
- By David Kravets
- June 6, 2011 |
- 6:09 pm |
- Categories: Breaches, Hacks and Cracks
LulzSec, which hacked into Sony last week and posted stolen e-mail addresses and passwords of about 50,000 consumers, said it hacked the Japanese media giant again on Monday.
This time, the group announced it had swiped 54 megabytes of “Sony Developer source code.”
A member of the anonymous group, meanwhile, was allegedly taken into custody by the FBI, according to a report that could not be independently verified.
LulzSec is the same group that claimed it�cracked PBS last month to protest Frontline’s hour-long documentary on WikiLeaks. In that hack, the group stole and posted thousands of stolen passwords.
The group has also claimed responsibility for hacking Sony’s Japanese website and Fox.com, where the group stole and posted 363 employee passwords and the names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of 73,000 people who had signed up for audition information for the upcoming Fox talent show The X-Factor.
The latest Sony hack is a seemingly endless series of intrusions at the company. They began with massive breaches in April that compromised account information on 77 million users of Sony’s PlayStation Network, and another 25 million at Sony Online Entertainment, the company’s game development arm.
Nobody has claimed credit for those large attacks, but the hacking group Anonymous had recently declared Sony a target in protest of the company’s lawsuit against PlayStation 3 tinkerer George Hotz. Sony claimed an Anonymous calling card was found on one of the servers compromised at SOE.
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