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Sony Music Greece Falls To Hackers

Posted by samzenpus on from the kicking-them-while-they're-down dept.

xsee writes "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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  1. Re:SQL Injection... by hedwards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm enjoying this for the lulz and the epic security fail. I just wish I could buy a drink for whomever it is that's doing this to Sony.

  2. Like it matters. by MrQuacker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Anyone who's ever visited Greece knows nobody buys music there. For 2euro an hour you can visit an internet cafe, get the password from the guy at the front desk, and connect to the cafes local file server. Last time I was there they had something like 20TB+ worth of movies, music, tv shows, games, and porn.

    They decided that since people download stuff anyways, might as well save on the bandwidth and store it locally. Any time you download a file its mirrored in the cafes file server, so others can copy it without having to re-download.

    And if you dont go that route, you can buy bootleg copies from any number of African immigrants on the street for just a few euro. Many times for better quality than available in stores for retail price.

    1. Re:Like it matters. by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Especially about the better quality, is the ironic truth. Remember those who were copying Star Wars Laserdiscs and making them into movie files, because the DVDs were often so slow in coming, and then the DVD releases were only of the new doctored versions and the original versions of star wars were impossible to purchase? The Laserdiscs of Star Wars were also reported to have better special features compared to the later DVD releases.Often times its impossible to get movies on DVDs from the companies, which basically is the companies tell fans, screw you, so fans just share the copies with themselves. For years companies have treated their customers like shit, and they then expect people to love them?

  3. Re:people are stealing user info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Quite frankly we need more of this type of action where it can actually dent Sony's reputation. Sony is a horrible company you shouldn't be doing business with in the first place. The same can be said for Microsoft and Apple.

  4. Re:people are stealing user info by hedwards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Honestly is this really that much worse than when Sony decides to vandalize customer equipment?

  5. Hit a Honeypot ? by What+the+Frag · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://pastebin.com/WqLysjiN

    If these is actually an excerpt of the actual data, then it looks like test data for me. Look at the passwords. They repeat a lot but grouped with ascending order. For example in the middle of the file there are a lot of "123456" passwords, but nowhere else. As the data seems to be ordered by u_usr this seems to be very unlikely.

  6. Re:people are stealing user info by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's heading rapidly towards the level of incompetence that the rootkit fiasco was...

    It would be funny if the vulnerability that was exploited came from that very rootkit, installed by some unsuspecting employee putting a Sony CD into the computer ...

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  7. Re:testing whether Slashdot... by Posting=!Working · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know you were trying to make a joke, but since about 2-3 weeks ago, if I click my username in the top right, I get "The user you requested does not exist, no matter how much you wish this might be the case. "

    It's just a theory, but I think the != in the middle of my username has something to do with it.

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