Hackers Claim 177K Email Addresses from Sony Pictures France Breach
In yet another round of cyber attacks, hackers have stolen more than 177,000 emails from Sony Pictures France, ZDNet reports. The two hackers, who go by the names of Idahc and Auth3ntiq, claim to have exploited an SQL flaw to get the information. The hackers posted information on Pastebin.com about their coup and a sample of the emails they stole.
In a recent interview on Forbes.com, Idahc said he considers himself a gray hat hacker who has been attacking Sony sites to demonstrate its less-than stellar security and push the company to fix its vulnerabilities.
“It is not my goal to destroy. I want to help Sony,” he said.
Sony has suffered multiple cyber attacks ever since it took its PlayStation Network offline in April, when the company discovered a breach had exposed information about tens of millions of customers. In the following days, the Japanese electronics giant discovered its Sony Online Entertainment servers had also been compromised. In total, more than 100 million S0ny customers had had their personal information stolen.
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