Sony Website Hacked By the "Lulz Boat"

[Gralian]

I knew this was coming a long time ago. LulzSec had been tweeting about it for quite some time.

 

[Jumplion]

There are still people here defending Sony. Seriously?

Don't get me wrong, the hackers are idiots, but Sony deserves this. It really does. It's a shame innocent people have to pay for their incompetence.

That's the thing, Sony isn't the one who is paying here; it's the consumers. If they really wanted to make a clear-cut point, they wouldn't have (allegedly) stolen people's information and would have either A) targeted the higher ups, B) warn Sony what they could potentially do with the info, or maybe the nicest (I.E. least likely) option C) contact Sony directly and work with them to improve security.

Sony may deserve this, but the consumers don't. They even have the audacity to demand money from the very people they are stealing with. Either way, the consumers are being buttfucked by two bullies.

I think Lulzsec once mentioned they do this 'for entertainment'. Not to prove a point or anything, they're doing this for fun.

And people will pay them too. If you read around their Twitter feed, they have many defenders who actually couldn't care less how much data is compromised, as long as they get a good show out of the whole thing.

It's disgusting.

Faith in humanity........lowering......

 

[BDNeon]

If they think they'll get OtherOS back by resorting to terrorism then that's just hilarious.

And if it was so simple to breach Sony why'd it take them THREE DAYS.

 

[Korey Von Doom]

In all fairness to Sony, why encrypt what someone wouldn't really want, I mean seriously this is more a, look we stole pretty much useless data, we're so bad.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

*sigh* another week, another Sony hack.

*reads article*

wait a minute! those fuckhead hackers want our money so that they can steal our information?! WHAT?!

 

[Mauso88]

Hacking is just the new hype crime, before this it was mobile phone theft and before that it was online predators. Give it a year or two and some other form of cyber-crime will emerge, to the utter indifference of 99% of the public.

 

[Agayek]

Proof? The mouths of hackers spill proof nowadays, interesting.

Logically, if it was better protected, the hackers would say so, because that would mean they were skilled enough to hack past the security on no budget.

Since they didn't, it's safe to assume that they are telling the truth. It's not a guarantee by any means, but it does lend quite a bit of support to that argument.

 

[hensethe1]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sony_bullshit

Maddox had it right all along

 

[qeinar]

An SQL injection? Seriously? A fucking SQL injection!?

That's the simplest type of hack in the world, if hacking were burglary, that would be the equivalent of checking if the front door was unlocked. Basically Sony left its front door open after being robbed blind just weeks ago, WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Don't even tell me none of this is Sony's fault, that's bullshit, I've always known it was bullshit, but now there's proof.

I agree most people that aren't into hackking might not understand how simple a sql hack is, this would be a major fuckup for any site with a user database.

 

[Yoh3333]

Hacking a corperation to show them their lack of security: Understandable.
Adding some internet humour: Funny (atleast i think so)
The intended result: Better security (i certainly hope!)

Now where i disagree with all this is what they ended up doing, completely exposeing almost the entire sonypictures user accounts to theft! This is the most dick move they could possibly do!

They literally say "Go forth and plunder" on their website!

good intensions being corrupted by the dick moves.

 

[qeinar]

In all fairness to Sony, why encrypt what someone wouldn't really want, I mean seriously this is more a, look we stole pretty much useless data, we're so bad.

actually, most people use the same password everywhere, so most of the username/passwords could be used to get their email and from there you can get a lot of information.

 

[MrTub]

To all the people that says there was no need to post all the data

there are two very simple reason for that.

1. Proof.

2. People will be pissed at Sony for leaving their data so unsecure and therefor it might force a change.


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

 

[rabidmidget]

Personally, I'm siding more with the hackers on this one, being able to access client's personal information so easily is a huge mistake for any compnay to make. Sure, posting the information afterwards is a bit dickish, but the only way to really get Sony's attention would be by generating another PR shitstorm like this.

 

[Koshok]

I really hope this isn't going to turn into hackers attacking everything else.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to change all my passwords.

 

[Kopikatsu]

To all the people that says there was no need to post all the data

there are two very simple reason for that.

1. Proof.

2. People will be pissed at Sony for leaving their data so unsecure and therefor it might force a change.


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

This doesn't suck for Sony nearly as much as it sucks for the 1,000,000+ people who were just opened up to identity theft.

 

[Korey Von Doom]

In all fairness to Sony, why encrypt what someone wouldn't really want, I mean seriously this is more a, look we stole pretty much useless data, we're so bad.

actually, most people use the same password everywhere, so most of the username/passwords could be used to get their email and from there you can get a lot of information.

People shouldn't be dumb enough to use the same password for everything, but sadly, people these days are as dumb as rocks.

 

[BDNeon]

*sigh* another week, another Sony hack.

*reads article*

wait a minute! those fuckhead hackers want our money so that they can steal our information?! WHAT?!

Isn't that potentially a good thing?

Money leaves a trail after all. Which means it could be an avenue of attack to find these bastards for law enforcement.

 

[Kopikatsu]

*sigh* another week, another Sony hack.

*reads article*

wait a minute! those fuckhead hackers want our money so that they can steal our information?! WHAT?!

Isn't that potentially a good thing?

Money leaves a trail after all. Which means it could be an avenue of attack to find these bastards for law enforcement.

Maybe the FBI's cyber division should send them some money, then. See where it goes.

Also, LulzSec has a website now. Can't they obtain user data from that? Just pull the first name off the list...(Who would be the one who set up the website)

 

[Gitty101]

For the love of the flying spaghetti monster...

I'm starting to get really sick of this. Frackin' hackers... Why can't they do something a little more productive instead of pissing off Sony and it's consumers?

I can't wait for Sony to find them and sue their arses back to the stone age.

 

[RoBi3.0]

Proof? The mouths of hackers spill proof nowadays, interesting.

Logically, if it was better protected, the hackers would say so, because that would mean they were skilled enough to hack past the security on no budget.

Since they didn't, it's safe to assume that they are telling the truth. It's not a guarantee by any means, but it does lend quite a bit of support to that argument.

Unless your intent wasn't to prove you are uber. Which in this case it is not. If the intent was to undermine Sony and destroy the faith of Sony's customers then it would be logically to assume that the hacker would lie and say that the network was so poorly protected that the simplest hack was able to break in.

They even say as much in their press release.
"Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?"


Really you can argue either way forever.