The Sony PR mess continues. Just yesterday, we reported that Sony Music Greece and Sony Music Japan had been hacked and over 8500 accounts had been compromised. Today was Sony Ericsson's turn, which saw its Canadian sShop website broken into, as 2,000 usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords made their way onto the web.
This year has been terrible for Sony. With one break-in and a detected exploit last week, following many more over the last month, we'd expect nothing to get worse, but it did: another Sony service got broken into, this time Sony Music Japan, the company's Japanese music label.
Sony hasn't been having a great year as far as security is concerned. After a hack last month and quite a few ever since, it was just two days ago that another exploit was found, bringing all online services down once again. In an already bad week for Sony, F-Secure is now reporting that an actual scam site is hosted on Sony's Thai domain, sony.co.th.
Sony have today released details of their PSN 'Welcome Back' package for North American customers, with PlayStation Plus service and free games the order of the day.
Sony's servers may have been taken down using Amazon's servers according to Bloomberg. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg claims Amazon's 'Amazon Web Services' servers may have been used to attack Sony's online presence.
Sony today pushed out a new software update for its PS3 console in preparation for the return of its PlayStation Network service.
Sony Denies Its PlayStation Network Servers Ran Outdated Software, Plans To Offer Bounty For Hackers
With Sony's PlayStation Network still down following a string of hacking attacks by a still unknown group, the accusations and questions have been flying in all directions. Who exactly at behind the attack, why did they do it, and perhaps more importantly, how did they manage it?
Remember when we told you how CNET had gotten hold of IRC logs that they claimed showed people planning to attack Sony's servers once more? Now the website is claiming Sony actually managed to thwart the would-be hackers, and it's all thanks to them.
Oh to be a fly on the wall at Sony HQ these days. After previously saying they hoped to bring their PlayStation Network back online this weekend, Sony has had to postpone the much-awaited return of the service due to a third wave of attacks aimed at the Japanese giant.
As if two cyber attacks in as many weeks wasn't enough, it appears Sony could be in for a third, according to chatter in a IRC channel.
