Sony Subsidiary's User Accounts Hacked

Source: Wall Street Journal

MAY 20, 2011, 7:56 A.M. ET

TOKYO—So-net Entertainment Corp, an Internet service provider subsidiary of Sony Corp., said an online intruder accessed its customer rewards site earlier this week and stole customers' redeemable gift points worth about $1,225.

The breach at So-net comes several days after Sony resumed service on its PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment online videogame services after a data breach compromised the personal information tied to more than 100 million accounts.

"Although we can't completely rule out the possibility that there is a connection with the PSN issue, the likelihood is low," said Keisuke Watabe, a spokesman at So-net Entertainment. He said it was unlikely because the method of intrusion used was so different.

In a warning to users issued on Thursday, So-net said an intruder tried 10,000 times to access the provider's "So-net" point service, which grants customers reward points that can be exchanged for Sony products and online currency, from the same IP address. So-net said it thinks the intruder had usernames of account holders and then may have used an automated software program to generate passwords until it found the correct one.


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10.000 tries.... They let a freakin brute force attack get in? Unreal.

They must have a real bang-up team of security experts :rofl:

The sysad's password is "admin." Bank on it.

mikey_the_rat

after all thats been going on in japan

lol

incompetent idiots. no other gaming companies seem to have these issues. try hiring HARDCORE PROFESSIONAL ex-hackers like Kevin Mitnick to design your security next time sony sheesh.