Sony Website Hacked By the "Lulz Boat"

[MattAn24]

Can these people display Sony's terrible security without stealing everyone's shit?

THIS. FUCKING THIS.

Seriously, hackers? Your solution to attack Sony is to TAKE INNOCENT PEOPLE'S DETAILS AND POST THEM ONLINE.. TO PROVE A FUCKING POINT!? You sick, disgusting fuckers. None of them deserve to breathe the same air as actual humans.

That's it. Fucking sick of them. They need lives and jobs. Something, ANYTHING better to do with their time.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Looks like Sony is the new, rich fat kid in class.

This is no more about pointing out Sony's lack in security as it is about making them look stupid. And I'm not involved in the hackers circuit, but I've never heard about anyone hacking Sony untill Sony started stepping on GeoHotz' dick. So this either means that Sony's security is not as bad as everyone says, or that nobody ever cared about hacking them untill these hackers felt fingered in the bum by Sony.
Something tells me that if all these "freedom fighters" targeted their arrows on Microsoft, Apple or Steam, they would find as much wrong with their security as with that of Sony.

Anyway, I hate hackers regardless - self-glorifiyng little shitstains that they are - so you can bet your ass I'm not taking their side with this.

 

[Ddgafd]

Ok, this is retarded. After the Hotz incident these hackers are just crying because things didn't go EXACTLY as they wanted. Seriously, they act like little kids who don't get their favorite toy for Christmas. Also, all these hacks must affect the hackers too. If they don't have a PS3 why would they even give a shit. Do they really want their Other OS back that bad? I for one never even bothered with it and I don't understand why anyone even would.

These people need to stop, hacking Sony is not "cool" or "righteous" and it never will be.

 

[Michizane]

There's no way this worked.
My SCHOOL PROJECTS are protected against sql injection, I highly doubt sony would overlook something this basic.

If they did though, gotta say it puts some blame on sony.

To quote the extra credits team: You don't blame a bank for being robbed.
But what if instead of a vault they just put their money on the sidewalk, are they to blame then? That's how basic an sql injection is.

 

[Roofstone]

Is it just me, or is sony basically happy hour for private information? : /

 

[Asehujiko]

This sucks for Sony but cmon... That is pretty much just asking to be "hacked"

"Officer, you don't understand. Did you see her skirt? She was asking to get raped."
"It's not our fault that guy walked into our neighborhood. He was asking to get curbstomped."
"That old lady left her purse in the shopping cart. She was asking for it to get stolen."

This is bullshit logic, and you know it. No-one "asks" for crime to happen to them, and it is not the victim's fault when some slack-jawed jackass with no respect for anyone except themselves decides to be a douche to everyone. Fuck these guys. Fuck Anonymous. Fuck Geohot. And fuck EVERYONE who thinks that this is somehow anyone's fault except for the fuckers who committed the crimes.

Sony is the victim of multiple crimes. Why is this so hard for you guys to understand?

Having a website that's vulnerable to SQL injection is like having a bank that can be robbed by writing "bank manager" on your shirt and asking the receptionist if you could see the vault. And passwords in plaintext are the equivalent of the receptionist then nodding at the pile of money on the other side of the room.

That's not "bullshit logic", that's tempting fate and disregarding human nature despite having the funds and manpower available to prevent that a thousand times over and being repeatedly shown the dire necessity of protecting against this.

To make an analogy to that other World War that nobody remembered, claiming that sony has done nothing wrong is defending Haig's badly thought out attack at the Somme by saying "Germany started the war". They did, that's true but a whole lot of misery could be prevented if the receiving party wasn't so stupid.

Edit: typo.

 

[xavi]

it sounds like they're just trying to copycat the people who actually did real damage to the PSN not too long ago.

 

[Sing Kritanakom]

"Look at the way she was dressed! She was asking for it!"

 

[Asehujiko]

They can hack and not steal info. Now they have up to 1 million details in their control. What are they going to do with all these details? All very suspect. Sure they will sell them to pay for more attacks otherwise why steal them to begin with?

They posted them online for free, preventing exactly that.

 

[Sikratua]

Having a website that's vulnerable to SQL injection is like having a bank that can be robbed by writing "bank manager" on your shirt and asking the receptionist if you could see the vault. And passwords in plaintext are the equivalent of the receptionist then nodding at the pile of money on the other side of the room.

Prove that this is what happened. No. Seriously. Prove it. And, you're not allowed to simply use the claims of the thieves. Go ahead. I'll wait.

That's not "bullshit logic", that's tempting fate and disregarding human nature despite having the funds and manpower available to prevent that a thousand times over and being repeatedly shown the dire necessity of protecting against this.

"Officer, it's not my fault that I raped that chick. Did you see her outfit? She was tempting fate. And, besides, where the fuck were you? If you had been there, you could have stopped me. You see, Officer, it's really your fault the ***** got raped."

And, yes, that's the arguement you're making.

To make an analogy to that other World War that nobody remembered, claiming that sony has done nothing wrong is defending Haig's badly thought out attack at the Somme by saying "Germany started the war". They did, that's true but a whole lot of misery could be prevented if the receiving party wasn't so stupid.

You fail at analogy. You just fail at it. According to this analogy, Sony is German, since they "started the problem." The hackers are Haig, and the soldiers who died are the consumers that are fucked over by the hackers.

And, then there's the moral, which you also screwed up. Those soldiers would have been in a better positiion had Haig's concern been on the battle, instead of his own ego and sense of invulnerability.

But, moving past your failed analogy, Sony is only guilty of this level of ineptitude IF you take a group of confessed criminals completely at their word. Why are you doing that, again?

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

The goal of the release was to decrease public confidence in and tarnish the Sony brand. And the hackers are succeeding handily.

Sony has committed numerous offenses against both their customers and internet freedom in general. They are major members in two organizations MPAA and RIAA who are the biggest threats to the open structure of the internet in the name of intellectual monopoly maintenance.

Small list of a few of Sony's misdeeds:

Installing rootkits on their customer's computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_prevention_scandal

Used their legal steamroller to drive a legitimate importer out of business: http://www.lik-sang.com/

They sued GeoHot on bullshit unproven claims just because they knew an individual doesn't have the money to fight them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_America_v._George_Hotz

They removed the either the OtherOS functionality or the ability to get software updates and play new games from previously purchased PS3s

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The lesson of the release of data is clear, Sony can't be trusted, and their customers are giving aid and comfort to an enemy of freedom.

 

[MattAn24]

"Look at the way she was dressed! She was asking for it!"

I'm beginning to support the whole "SlutWalk" movement happening in Australia more, just from that quote..

It doesn't matter what a fuck a person wears, you DO NOT harm them simply because "they were asking for it". No. They weren't.

Thank you for bringing that quote up, Sing. Nothing against you at all, just a valid point.

The same is the case here. Hackers, back the fuck off. It's not YOUR data to take! Simply claiming "We're heroes! We're freedom fighters, fighting for the safe protection of YOUR data!" No you're not. You just took it. WHAT THE FUCK, GUYS? What you did is called "illegal". See how you like it being raped in prison, assholes.. Do you deserve that? Probably not, because that would be hypocritical.. But fuck that.

 

[dvd_72]

What kind of twisted logic is that? "Hey, we stole everyones information and put it out in a public place so that anyone could try to steal all your accounts because we wanted to point out Sonys crappy security."

That's like me punching you in the face and taking all your stuff, then saying I did it because I wanted to show you how incapable of defending yourself you are. That's just flimsy logic to justify commiting crimes so they don't feel guilty. Who the hell do they think they're fooling with that crap?

*head explodes*

 

[Kopikatsu]

Well, this means the PSN store's re-launch is going to be delayed even more.

Which also means the hackers should consider themselves lucky not to be in the same room as me. Otherwise I'd... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHi3A0L6UE]

The playstation store has been up for hours and hours. I've already downloaded like fifty gazillion demos off it. The NA customer appreciation plan probably won't be going into effect until the 4th, though.

4 REALZ????

*Opens up Media Go*

"Huh. Okay, well it's necessary, I guess."
*installs, re-opens, clicks 'Store'*

*sigh* "Okay, all right, might as well..."
*installs*
"Enter your name and password"
*enters*
"Password is now invalid, you must change your password"
*opens up store.playstation.com* [http://store.playstation.com]
"Under Maintenance"

That made me laugh. Hard.

They said that you should change your password through your PS3, though...so try that.

 

[TornadoFive]

Also, I must have missed the memo that said, "Everyone gang up on Sony for the next couple of months." Seriously, their online stuff has been attacked how many times now? More than I can be bothered keeping track of anyway.

Really. I thought everyone got it. It went to the tune of "Sony sues hacker - geohots."

Whatever excuse these guys are using, Sony has been in a long running war with hackers and both sides just keep making things worse.

I'm expecting they're probably going to try something else on PSN just in time for E3. That'll be a fun day for Jack Trenton.
They might even pull it off but I don't think they can take Sony down completely like they're threatening to.

I seriously doubt this is still about Geohot. As far as I knew, that matter was closed.

And lets be honest, what's the thinking there?

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"Sony's suing a hacker! We need to persuade them that they're wrong. What's the best way of doing that?"

"I dunno. Hacking the PSN, causing chaos and disruption for millions of innocent people?"

"Brilliant! That'll get everyone on our side!"

"Oh, and as an added bonus, we should start hacking other things to do with Sony, just to prove to them why hackers should not be sued."

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I know, I know, it probably wasn't the same group thats attacked everything, but you see my point. These kind of attacks are hardly going to cause Sony to reconsider anything that they did during Geohot's trial.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

So after Sony go on about how their security has been upgraded after the last breach they then get hacked by one of the most simple hacks around. Nice Sony real nice.

Well the fuckers can forget about getting anymore of my money, I do hate hackers and everything but Lulzboat just proved how shit Sony's security really is it really just proves that they don't really give a fuck about their security. Not even encrypting their users data, I mean what the fuck.

 

[Kopikatsu]

So after Sony go on about how their security has been upgraded after the last breach they then get hacked by one of the most simple hacks around. Nice Sony real nice.

They hacked Sony Pictures. Sony Games is the one that upgraded it's security. The ONLY thing the different Sony's have in common is the name. You may as well consider them to be completely different companies, because technically they are.