BOSTON / NEW YORK (Reuters) - the pirates have burst in Sony Corp. computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to demonstrate the vulnerability of the electronics giant systems, the last security several violates undermines confidence in the company.
LulzSec, a group claims attack on American TV PBS and Fox.com, said that he broke into servers that run Web of Sony Pictures Entertainment sites. He has published the names, dates of birth, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered the competition promoted by Sony.
"Of a single injection, we consulted everything," hacking group said in a statement. "Why you put such faith in a company that enables to become open to simple attacks."
The breach of security is the last cyber attack against companies high - profile, including defence contractor Lockheed Martin and Google Inc..
The LulzSec claims came as Sony executives tried to reassure U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on the security of the data on their efforts to protect computer networks of the company, which suffered the largest breach of security in the history in April in Washington.
Sony has been under fire since hackers accessed of the personal information on the PlayStation Network and Qriocity of 77 million accounts, of which 90% are users in North America or Europe.
Sony said at the time credit card information may have been stolen, prosecutions and a shadow on its plans to combine hardware products and content via online services. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in April.
Later, he revealed hackers had stolen data from 25 million users of a separate system, Sony Online Entertainment PC games network, a short breach may 2.
Sony said it was investigating the violation of claimed by LulzSec and refused to elaborate. Shares of Sony in Tokyo fell 0.6% Friday, the broader market.
The latest attack, while on the PlayStation Network, was not on a revenue-generating Web site and was likely to have no impact on earnings, analysts said.
Reuters confirmed the authenticity of data on several competitors who LulzSec said that it was published.
CYBER SAFETY
Cyber Security is growing rapidly the global responsible political agenda.
The Australian Government said Friday it will develop a strategy for defence of cyber and the United States, said in a report in May that the hostile acts in cyberspace would be treated as any other threat to the country.
Lockheed piracy attack may have compromised the security of the tokens SecureID made by EMC Corp., while on targeted Google, among others, data senior U.S. Government officials.
"These allegations are very serious," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of the attack of Google, the Internet giant, said appeared to originate in China.
The last attack against Sony, the Federal Trade Commission of United States may choose to consider the circumstances that led to the violation if Sony Pictures Entertainment failed to use appropriate procedures to protect data of its customers.
John Bumgarner, head of technology agent for the unit of consequences for the Cyber to the United States, a non-profit group that monitors the Web threats, said that he was not surprised that Sony systems had even once been violated.
"The system was not secure," said objected, who warned last month it had identified a string of all Sony network security vulnerabilities.
He said that he found vulnerabilities in the network of Sony Pictures Entertainment as recently as last week.
The first attacks of piracy in April has prompted Sony to close its PlayStation Network and other services for about a month.
Games PlayStation and Qriocity network, a service of video and music, are back online, except for some operations to the Japan, Korea South and Hong Kong.
Criticized representatives Sony at the hearing of the Congress to wait several days to advise customers of the breach.
LulzSec has claimed responsibility for several hacks for a month. He said it desecrated the Web sites of the PBS television network in the United States and posted data stolen from its servers Monday to protest against a "front line" documentary on WikiLeaks.
He has also divided into a Web Fox.com website and published data on competitors for the talent show upcoming Fox TV, "X factor."
LulzSec also said Thursday he had hacked Sony BMG Music Entertainment Netherlands and Belgium. It has already disclosed in an attack on Sony Music Japan.
(Other reports by Diane Bartz Washington, Mayumi Negishi in Tokyo;) (Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Richard Chang and Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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