Sony Compromised, Again

Konsalik writes "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."

Comments

Re:What are they trying to prove at this point?

[node 3]

Sony continues to be a target because Sony refuses to learn its lesson. And make no mistake, that lesson is about the consequences of abusing your customers, not about network security.

And what lesson is that? There are legitimate, legal, recourses is Sony did anything wrong. Shit, they didn't even do something that even 1/10th of 1% of their users even knew about, let alone had any expectation of ever using.

Seriously, walk up to anyone on the street, ask if them they have a PS3, then if so, ask them if they either:

A. Knew was "Other OS" was.
B. Ever used it, or had plans to.

If it was something Sony needed to "learn a lesson" over, it would have resulted in loss of market share. All this really is is a bunch of juvenile criminals who think they have the right to do whatever they want. I can only imagine how sad their lives must truly be to think this as some kind of moral crusade.

Re:I wonder if the hackers would stop..

[MimeticLie]

Sony is a big company with a lot of activities, and not all of them are objectionable.

Given their poor hardware quality, rootkits, data breaches, exploding batteries, inventing fake movie critics, removing advertised features, obnoxious viral marketing, spying on environmental activists, being seen as one of the two worst companies in America, and whatever else I couldn't think of off the top of my head, I'd say "most" rather than "not all".

Re:I wonder if the hackers would stop..

[cpu6502]

>>>what has Sony really done that warrants this kind of behavior? Are they dumping toxic chemicals? Causing global warming? Killing babies?

Nothing that extreme, but they are still violating individual rights:
- Selling PS3s with "other OS" capability, and then turning it off. AKA bait-and-switch aka false advertising. Also illegal in Europe (where customers can demand refunds)
- Installing software from Music CD that killed customer's computers (made them unbootable)
- Bricked PS3s that were modded to play emulators (like SNES or Atari-Stella)
- Sued people for Millions of dollars, because they downloaded 5 songs.
- Prosecuted a man who posted how to open-up your PS3 and mod it to play HD DVDs (and other stuff)
- Used extradition to remove a customer from Europe to US, so they could sentence the customer to 20 years for hacking his console.

NOW do you understand why /.'rs hate Sony?
And why we boycott them?
Educate yourself about these corporations, and the evils they commit, rather than just blindly buying everything.