Hackers from a group called LulzSec announced on Thursday that they had breached sonypictures.com, the website belonging to Sony-owned studio Sony Pictures. The group claims to have compromised personal information belonging to over 1 million users, including user names, passwords, home addresses, dates of birth and other sensitive data.
The group also claims to have accessed 75,000 “music codes” and 3.5 million “music coupons.” LulzSec says it employed a simple SQL injection technique to access the data, and that Sony Pictures’ site was not secure and was therefore easy to breach.
The hackers did not have the resources to download all of the exposed data, but they say they did obtain samples in order to prove the authenticity of the attack.
This is the fourth breach of a Sony owned property in the last two months. The most famous being the Sony Playstation Network. Sony was forced to bring the site down while additional security measures were put in place.
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