Sony Pictures Confirms LulzSec Hack

June 3 (Reuters) - Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed late Friday evening that some of its websites were breached and it was working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to identify the attackers.

Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony, said it had begun an internal investigation into the breach.

On Thursday, a hacker group calling itself LulzSec said it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites.

The breach is the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company. [ID:nN0288458]

(Reporting by Abhiram Nandakumar in Bangalore, Editing by Jonathan Thatcher)

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Comments

[Jack Daniels Esq]

07:58 AM on 06/05/2011

and stop whining

[Jack Daniels Esq]

07:58 AM on 06/05/2011

Screw Asia - buy American kiddies - put ya money where ya mouth is

[KarateKid]

09:35 PM on 06/04/2011

The Japanese have a term for Sony - "kechi" which means stingy.

Here's a multi-billion dollar corporation that has a dime store security. They collectively bow in apology, and say it's safe. Yeah.

The Japanese have another term for Sony executives - "Uso-tsuki"....which means LIARS.

[vinnieboiblue]

06:17 PM on 06/04/2011

Wow, first Toyota, with their recalls an poor public relations response, and now Sony. Not a good time for Japanese corporations at all.

[ResearchtheFacts]

05:26 PM on 06/04/2011

You know all that cracking down over intellectual property rights and such has pissed a few million hackers off.

[bkerensa]

04:08 PM on 06/04/2011

Sony is a joke they say the spent tens of millions to secure their network yet they didn't do basic things like harden their kernels and patch exploits.

[talkmedown]

03:27 PM on 06/04/2011

Corps are accountable to the people ... not in Congress, but to a degree apparently on the web

[ewj1]

01:20 PM on 06/04/2011

Guess there is an easy to hack to linux Apache sites. It seems all the sites getting hacked are using some form of Linux.

[ResearchtheFacts]

05:28 PM on 06/04/2011

Explain the iOS breaches where they were able flip back the lid and look at a year's worth of data? Plus, there is a tool kit for $79 sold by russians that has cracked the 256 bit encryption apple uses from the hardware layer.

[Basselope]

01:02 PM on 06/04/2011

Sony started a fight they couldn't win.

[ewj1]

01:22 PM on 06/04/2011

What fight did they start? The GeoHot thing was resolved when the hacking started.

[Basselope]

01:34 PM on 06/04/2011

Settling an improper lawsuit doesn't mean you didn't start it.