The hackers, who call themselves LulzSec or the Lulz Boat, said they exploited the Sony Pictures website via a SQL injection attack.More info at InformationWeek.
"We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users' personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts," the group said in a Pastebin post. "Among other things, we also compromised all admin details of Sony Pictures (including passwords) along with 75,000 'music codes' and 3.5 million 'music coupons.'"
The group released 150,000 records gleaned during its attack, saying it didn't have time to copy more. Those records also include material taken from exploited databases for Sony BMG in the Netherlands and Belgium, which contained further information about website users as well as employees.
Hackers expose 1 million Sony account passwords
Posted on Sunday, June 05 2011 @ 12:30 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck