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Sony Europe hacked by Lebanese hacker… Again

04

Jun

2011

By my count this is unlucky hack number 13 for Sony. A Lebanese hacker known as Idahc dumped another user database at Sony Europe containing approximately 120 usernames, passwords (plain text), mobile phone numbers, work emails and website addresses. The attacker claims that he used standard SQL injection techniques to acquire the database. I think […]

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Sony Pictures attacked again, 4.5 million records exposed

03

Jun

2011

The same hackers who recently attacked PBS.org have turned their attention back to Sony by releasing the latest dump of information stolen from Sony’s websites. While the information disclosed includes approximately 150,000 records, the hackers claim the databases exposed contain over 4.5 million records, at least a million of which include user information. The data […]

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PBS.org hacked… Lulzsec targets Sesame Street?

30

May

2011

In the latest politically motivated attack related to the Wikileaks saga, a group that calls themselves LulzSec has hacked the Public Broadcast Service (PBS). PBS is the American public television network most famous for the creation of Sesame Street. In addition to dumping numerous SQL databases through a SQL injection attack, LulzSec injected a new […]

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