Sony ISP Hacked

[jerome27]

Hard as it may be to believe, Sony has been hacked yet again.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, So-net Entertainment Corp., a Japanese ISP owned by the technology giant, said that hackers accessed its customer rewards site earlier this week and stole customers' redeemable gift points worth about $1,225.

The incident is the latest in a weeks-long string of hacks and breaches of security for Sony. The trouble began on April 19, when the company began investigating and ultimately discovered a massive breach of security on its PlayStation Network, a cyberscandal that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million users.

The PlayStation.com website was the target of later attacks, and on Thursday, the company took down a password-reset page it had built following the discovery of a "URL exploit" that the company insisted was not another hack.

A Sony spokesman said that the incident at So-net was most likely unrelated to the other assaults.

"Although we can't completely rule out the possibility that there is a connection with the PSN issue, the likelihood is low," Keisuke Watabe, a spokesman at So-net Entertainment, told the Wall Street Journal. He said it was unlikely because the method of intrusion used was so different.

So-net issued a warning stating that an intruder tried 10,000 times to access the provider's "So-net" service, which grants customers reward points that can be exchanged for Sony products and online currency. The company believes the hacker used the usernames of account holders and an automated software program to generate passwords, leading to the security breach.

The company said there is no evidence that any personal data such as names, addresses, birth dates or phone numbers were viewed.

Last month, U.S. lawyers filed a lawsuit against Sony on behalf of lead plaintiff Kristopher Johns for negligent protection of personal data and failure to inform players in a timely fashion that their credit card information may have been stolen. The lawsuit seeks class-action status.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/20/...ion-so-net-isp/

 

[SamAsh07]

Hereeee we gooooo again. *Miyamoto returns to his merry way and continues work on his Project Cafe*

 

[Sausage Head]

facepalm.

FACE.
PALM.


FACEPALM!

 

[chrisrlink]

like i said this doesn't have connection to all the lawsuits Sony has been dishing out they prey on sony (my thought) cause they're rep is a steaming pile of shit now whoever is doing this just want to commit ID fraud at Sony's Expense

 

[Sir VG]

10,000 times? Either the hacker used sneaky methods, or Sony's ISP is awful about limiting between login attempts. I mean, you can greatly slowdown attempts by forcing periods of time between failed logins, Sony. Common sense in security, really.

 

[Foxi4]

10,000 times? Either the hacker used sneaky methods, or Sony's ISP is awful about limiting between login attempts. I mean, you can greatly slowdown attempts by forcing periods of time between failed logins, Sony. Common sense in security, really.

1 virus, 10.000 infected computers, 10.000 login attempts per cycle.

 

[coolness]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im feeling like the hulk right now i want to kill those hackers :@
it the fault of that dick eater Geohot i hope a cannibal while eat his gaynerdy meat

 

[gamefan5]

LOL EPIC FAIL!!!!
Sony will NEVER learn.

 

[prowler]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im feeling like the hulk right now i want to kill those hackers :@
it the fault of that dick eater Geohot i hope a cannibal while eat his gaynerdy meat

Anger management is there for a reason.

 

[KingVamp]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im feeling like the hulk right now i want to kill those hackers :@
it the fault of that dick eater Geohot i hope a cannibal while eat his gaynerdy meat

Really? I like to read proof that geohot is a dick eater and is at fault.

@topic Quite unfortunate...

@Coolness Maybe not maybe so but he isn't the one that did it.
And we really don't know how hackers even did it. They may not need his method at all.

 

[coolness]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im feeling like the hulk right now i want to kill those hackers :@
it the fault of that dick eater Geohot i hope a cannibal while eat his gaynerdy meat

Anger management is there for a reason.

Lol, but everyone think of it its Geohot his fault he must not give the ps3 key, thanks to him everyone have lose there creditcard documents passwords etc. And i know maybe someone else maybe have released the key but maybe it while be waiting much longer before that other guy while get the ps3 key

 

[Deleted User]

What is this I don't even--

Wow Sony. You never fail to amaze me.

 

[Densetsu]

Wow Sony. You never fail...

I lol'd

 

[Hydreigon]

Really? Does Sony even put ANY effort into security? >.>

 

[Zetta_x]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im feeling like the hulk right now i want to kill those hackers :@
it the fault of that dick eater Geohot i hope a cannibal while eat his gaynerdy meat

Anger management is there for a reason.

Lol, but everyone think of it its Geohot his fault he must not give the ps3 key, thanks to him everyone have lose there creditcard documents passwords etc. And i know maybe someone else maybe have released the key but maybe it while be waiting much longer before that other guy while get the ps3 key

Wtf are you going on about? You don't know anything about what has happened. The keys being leaked is nearly independent on the break in of the servers, in a matter of fact, the architectures are so different. What are you like 4?

 

[Discord]

Odds are that Sony has little to no real interaction with the company, especially on a security level, they merely own the ISP. I wouldn't be comparing this to PSN at all.

 

[shadowmanwkp]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im feeling like the hulk right now i want to kill those hackers :@
it the fault of that dick eater Geohot i hope a cannibal while eat his gaynerdy meat

Anger management is there for a reason.

Lol, but everyone think of it its Geohot his fault he must not give the ps3 key, thanks to him everyone have lose there creditcard documents passwords etc. And i know maybe someone else maybe have released the key but maybe it while be waiting much longer before that other guy while get the ps3 key

Wtf are you going on about? You don't know anything about what has happened. The keys being leaked is nearly independent on the break in of the servers, in a matter of fact, the architectures are so different. What are you like 4?

It is not independent from the security breach. The hackers used custom firmware to hack into PSN. Geohot's keys allowed CFW's to be made, so he has some involvement in this.

 

[CrimzonEyed]

I bet there are some Crackers out there that is really mad at sony and isn't going to stop

 

[KingVamp]

It is not independent from the security breach. The hackers used custom firmware to hack into PSN. Geohot's keys allowed CFW's to be made, so he has some involvement in this.

Link?

Even then it not his fault. He as he did not mess with PSN. Even without the cfw it was going to happen.

 

[Magmorph]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im feeling like the hulk right now i want to kill those hackers :@
it the fault of that dick eater Geohot i hope a cannibal while eat his gaynerdy meat

Anger management is there for a reason.

Lol, but everyone think of it its Geohot his fault he must not give the ps3 key, thanks to him everyone have lose there creditcard documents passwords etc. And i know maybe someone else maybe have released the key but maybe it while be waiting much longer before that other guy while get the ps3 key

Wtf are you going on about? You don't know anything about what has happened. The keys being leaked is nearly independent on the break in of the servers, in a matter of fact, the architectures are so different. What are you like 4?

It is not independent from the security breach. The hackers used custom firmware to hack into PSN. Geohot's keys allowed CFW's to be made, so he has some involvement in this.

You have evidence to back up this claim right?