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It seems a group of people finally decide to take revenge on Sony's suing/arresting a modder. Sony entire gaming/music network is being destroyed to pieces. And the financial fallout is going to be massive. nobody is going to trust their online service ever again. (that include
movie/music/game service) credit card and account breach. Sony is already bleeding hard from CD-digital & LCD TV war.
I'd say their music business will go down eventually too. The intrnet won't stop until Sony is destroyed. Sony's bad karma is enough to make any itchy teen trying their hand on their ass from here on to eternity. (They shouldn't release that final fantasy VII upon retrospect. It gives the narrative foundation against Sony itself. )
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news/article_1635592.php/Sony-s-fiasco-spells-disaster-for-ailing-company
In a posting on the technology site Slashdot.com, he related how he had spent most of the night changing his online passwords, after learning that his private information had been hacked - along with that of 77 million other account holders - by an intruder to Sony's Playstation network.
'As a previously happy PS3 user, I'm infuriated at their shoddy handling of this whole thing,' commented Schnell, whose choice of words was exceptionally tame compared to the expletive-ridden reactions posted by many other angry victims on Twitter, Facebook and countless other internet forums.
The streams of curse-laden reactions began to flow late Tuesday after Sony's US spokesman revealed that a network outage that had frustrated Playstation owners for over a week was actually one of the greatest data breaches in the history of the internet.
Sony's Patrick Seybold said the unidentified hacker who penetrated the game and entertainment online network had gained access to members' names, addresses, email address, birthdates, passwords and logins. If that wasn't bad enough, it was also possible that members' credit card details had been exposed, he said.
Sony had detected the intrusion a week before, taking the unprecedented step of completely shutting down the service and rebuilding it anew. That action was certainly an annoying inconvenience to the millions of people who used the network to play online games, watch movies via Netflix and download music and videos through Sony's Qriocity service.
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Shares of Sony Corp (6758.T)
extended losses to trade down as much as 5.2 percent, hitting a
one-month low on Thursday as investors worried over the widening impact
of a massive leak of personal information of users of its PlayStation
network.
Sony said on Tuesday that
hackers had breached the network a week earlier, compromising
confidential information including the names, addresses and possibly
credit card data of 77 million users.Experts say Sony could face legal action across the globe due to the incident.http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/28/us-sony-stock-idUSTRE73R0A420110428Sony could face global legal action after it belatedly revealed one of the biggest online data breaches ever.
It follows the warning by the Japanese electronics giant that users
of its online playstation service may have had personal information,
including credit card details, stolen.
US lawyers are reported to be considering a possible lawsuit, while a UK government watchdog has launched an investigation.
The massive data hack has all been very frustrating for the gamers, some expressing shock and anger.
http://www.euronews.net/2011/04/27/sony-could-face-legal-action-over-huge-data-breach/
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Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack
"In a letter to Congress, Kazuo Hirai, chairman of Sony's board of directors, blames hacker group Anonymous
for making possible the theft of gamers' personal information. '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,' Hirai wrote. He also indicated that Sony waited two days
before notifying the FBI of the theft."
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And the Great Internet war has begun. As usual, Sony will make bonehead moves, which ultimately reveal their entire ever more illegal information gathering on private citizens, which in the end pisses the entire planet.
They think installing rootkit a few years back had a backlash, wait until the first FBI raid because SONY tell them to do it. ... All SONY next product sales will drop to zero pronto, since everybody will attack and poison all their products. They'll be the first company brought down by angry public online in history. And they still keep doing it.
The next step would be people hacking into SONY's office to reveal their deep political corruption/bribing DC politicians.
as predictable as Sony can be.
Sony's bad kharma finally reaches point of no return.
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Sony Music Greece Falls To Hackers
"Hackers: 6, Sony: 0. It appears an attacker has performed a SQL injection attack against SonyMusic.gr.
The latest attack has exposed usernames, real names, email addresses
and more. Is Sony's network being used as the world's largest public
penetration test?"
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Sony estimates $3.2b loss this year, $171 million cost for PSN breach
It has not been a good year for Sony, which was affected both by the massive earthquake in March and the PSN outage
that spanned from April into May. There couldn't be any doubt that
those things would have a drastic impact on the company's bottom-line,
and it's now taking the time to give investors an idea of just how big
an impact that could be -- even though the financial issues lie largely
elsewhere. Sony is set to announce its full financial report for its
fiscal year this Thursday and, to soften the blow, estimates have been
revised steeply downward. Previously Sony predicted a ¥70 billion ($855
million) profit, but now thinks a ¥260 billion ($3.14 billion) loss is rather more accurate -- a ¥360 billion non-cash charge taking the wind out of ¥200 billion in operating income.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/23/sony-estimates-3-2b-loss-this-year-171-million-cost-for-psn-b/
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Sony Compromised, Again
"The hacker group LulzSec on Thursday posted information it took from Sony Entertainment and Sony BMG
on its site, called the LulzBoat. Lulz Security said it broke into
servers that run SonyPictures.com. The information includes about a
million usernames and passwords of customers in the US, the Netherlands
and Belgium and is available for download and posted on the group's
site."
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This is getting nasty, as usual. All the corruption inside DC politics and machinaries is slowly dripping out.
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/hr7v6/lulzsec_hack_infragard_atlanta_members_alliance/
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we have uncovered an operation orchestrated by Unveillance and
others to control and assess Libyan cyberspace through malicious means:
the U.S. government is funding the CSFI to attack Libya's cyber
infrastructure. You will find the emails of all 23 people involved in
the emails.Is this the same operation that's on the CSFI home page?
CSFI is officially releasing "Project Cyber Dawn Libya." Project
Cyber Dawn Libya is the result of a collaborative research effort of
twenty-one individuals from the USA, Australia, Canada, Egypt, Italy,
Tunisia and the UK.Project Cyber Dawn Libya collates, analyzes, and reports on raw data
and its Interconnections that have been harvested from the public
domain. Recent events are correlated with known historical data to
provide an in-depth view into Libyan Cyber Warfare capabilities and
defenses. Through this analysis, CSFI can help the international
community to understand not only Libya's potential to influence the
balance in cyberspace, but also the physical repercussions of
cyber-attacks originating from, and directed towards Libya..
Maybe it's being taken a step further than this describes...
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/03/lulzsec-claims-fbi-a.html
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[–]sidcool1234 9 points 6 hours ago
I may be naive here, but why's this hacker after Sony?
[–]s13ecre13t 16 points 3 hours ago*
- Because Sony sold PS3 with ability to run linux and PS2 games.
- But Linux got gimped : it didn't have access to all the hardware
- But hackers were ok with that; they could crunch numbers and that was what they cared for.
- Then Sony released firmware update that removed linux capability
- and bunch of programmers / gamers / data centers got pissed off
- Then Sony released PS3 without ps2 capabilities
- and bunch of gamers got further pissed
- Sony has been effectively disabling features on already sold products
- so the race was to get features back, features that the equipment came with but were disabled much later on
- a German group figured out how to get features back (shown during Chaos Computer Conference)
- Independent american (geohot) found even more tricks through similar means not soon after
- Sony went after American because American law is in their pocket
- Sony got swat team on geohot for publishing what he did with equipment he own
- sony is claiming you don't own PS3, and that Sony can do whatever they want to the machine and to you
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/hs3bz/oh_look_sony_music_brazil_has_been_hacked/
[–]madmax12ca 27 points 5 hours agoSony
sued the person who jailbroke the PS3, apparently it's illegal to
modify something he bought with his own money. Later people said they
would get their revenge and Sony said "bring it on". It is being
brought.
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[–]jamescarmichael 2 points 6 hours ago
Because hacking Sony is cool now. You don't need a reason... everybody does it!
[–]sidcool1234 4 points 6 hours ago
No, seriously, why not hack Microsoft or any other company? Sony must have done something to piss this guy off.
[–]SeriousMFBusiness 1 point 5 hours ago
Because Sony is that douchebag neighbor that deserves to have their shit fucked up, and they left all the house doors unlocked.
[–]videogamechamp 2 points 1 hour ago
They
have all the attention, and the first hack made everyone realize that
Sony takes the 'lol wut' approach to network security. Especially with
all the added scrutiny of the past few weeks, it's crazy that these
hacks keep coming out so quickly. -
BAIL OUT timeeee............
Japan to merge Sony and Toshiba’s LCD units
By Jonathan Soble in Tokyo
Published: June 7 2011 15:44 | Last updated: June 7 2011 15:44
Japan
is seeking to protect its lead in the production of touchscreen
displays used in smartphones and tablet computers with a plan to merge
operations owned by Sony and Toshiba into a new company that would be majority-owned by the government.According
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3a76a42c-9110-11e0-acfd-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3a76a42c-9110-11e0-acfd-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss&_i_referer=&ftcamp=rss
to people familiar with the matter, Sony and Toshiba are in talks to
shift production of small liquid crystal displays to a joint venture
with the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), an investment fund that has received more than 90 per cent of its capital from the state.
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Sony released a statement to the Wall Street Journal
noting that “the website did not ask for any credit-card information.”
Instead, the personal data that was exposed from the site included
“names, genders, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates,
user account names and passwords.”So in the grand scheme of
things, last week’s attack was more of an embarrassment for Sony than a
large-scale risk for registered users. If you were registered at Sony
Pictures websites and your name is on the lists released by Lulzsec, you
need only worry about making sure your passwords on other sites are
different, and that you have a good spam filter to deal with the extra
unsolicited email that is likely to result. Your credit card details are
safe. Still, the episode underscores the reality of web security in the
modern age. It used to be that users could feel comfortable trusting
big brands like Sony, organizations that had the resources to keep
things secure.http://mashable.com/2011/06/08/sony-pictures-hack-confirmed/
Sony is still in denial about the depth of trouble they are in. In fact, if there is any long term strategy against Sony, it would be to exploit this denial. (not a big blow, but long drawn out blood letting, not too big to make their incompetent leadership to reorganized their company. but big enough to crippled them. In the end Sony will eventually go bankrupt long before the trial is over.)
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Well, it was bound to happen. As LulzSec, after hitting company
after company after government after gazebo, sailed off into the sunset,
leaving behind a massive data dump involving the Arizona Department of
Public Security, it felt like a tactical retreat. And it was. Temporary
partners AnonymousIRC took over the fight under the banner (or sails, in
their terminology) of previously announced Operation AntiSec, and began
their run with new data dumps, posted on The Pirate Bay as antisec01 (or Anti-Sec 001).Alongside some government shenanigans, AntiSec busted open two dumps
from Universal Music Group, containing both usernames and passwords, as
well as "other data." Viacom was also hit, though the damage remain
limited to a server mapping that might be more useful to actual hackers.
As of press time, no confirmation from UMG or Viacom has been received
regarding the validity of the dumps.While the dump seems minor at the moment, AntiSec promises more
dumps, perhaps hinting at a deeper hack for some of these groups:And keep in mind: #AntiSec vessels have a very large
cache of valuable goods aboard; the crews are currently working hard to
sort the loot in a way that even the lousy media sailboats are able to
just grab it and sail away for the horizon. You will hear from us very
soon.Not that we at Tiny Mix Tapes condone such hacking, but on the off
chance that it means actual info regarding UMG's relationship with the
government (perhaps via the RIAA), maybe that could be sent our way?
We've got a bit of an axe to grind with a certain Joe, and while our dinghy is lousy and small, we are rigging it with some anti-gravity machinery so that it can fly in the air and cut through the crap.http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/operation-antisec-hits-universal-music-promises-more-data-soon
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In the short time between election and inauguration, the incoming
administration's position on copyright, examined at the time in the TMT
article “The War on Copyright” (TMT Article),
was not clear. The only early signs of a pro-copyright, anti-piracy
stance were through an MPAA wishlist posted on the Change.gov website.
Since then, the appointments being made at the Department of Justice
have painted a striking picture of what is to be expected by Americans
in terms of intellectual property. In order, here are the appointments
made by the White House of note:
- Thomas
Perrelli, nominated as Associate Attorney General on January 5,
confirmed March 12. Perrelli's position is second-in-command in the
DoJ, behind Attorney General Eric Holder. He was one of the leading
RIAA lawyers on file-sharing DMCA cases. In one case, he argued for the
release of ISP customer information without a subpoena.
- Donald
Verrilli, nominated as Associated Deputy Attorney General on Feburary 4.
Verrilli's position is third-in-command in the DoJ, behind Perrelli.
He was the chief RIAA attorney in Jammie Thomas case of last year, which
was won by the RIAA before being declared a mistrial.
- Brian Hauck,
appointed as Counsel to the AAG in February 4. Hauck's position is to
serve as Perrelli's lawyer. He represented the RIAA in the historic
Supreme Court case MGM Studios v. Grokster in 2005, won by the industry.
He also donated a combined $1500 to the Obama campaign in 2007 and
2008.
- Ginger Anders, appointed as Assistant to Solicitor General
Elena Kagan in March. The Solicitor General represents the government
in Supreme Court cases. Anders was one of the litigators in last year's
Cablevision case, which the content industry intended to block the
cable company from allowing it to store customers' recorded programs on
its servers.
- Ian Gershengorn, appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney
of the Civil Division of the DoJ on April 13. Gershengorn's position
entails overseeing the Federal Programs Branch, which recently announced
support for $150,000 monetary damages for pirated files during a
copyright case. He also represented the RIAA in the MGM Studios v.
Grokster case.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/joe-bidens-problem-music
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[–]blablahblah 4 points 1 hour ago
When
someone hacked the PS3, Sony sued the pants off the person who slightly
modified what the original hackers did (in a jurisdiction 2500 miles
away from where the 20 year old lived) and seized all his computers.
When someone hacked Windows Phone Seven, Microsoft invited the guys to
Redmond to discuss a legitimate homebrew on WP7.