Hackers hit Sony Pictures France, grab 177K e-mails
Sony Pictures France is the latest Sony Web site to suffer at the hands of hackers. This time two hackers have claimed credit and say they copied more than 177,000 e-mails from the site.
The two hackers are identified as a Lebanese student called “Idahc” and “Auth3ntiq,” a friend of his from France. They claim to have exploited a SQL flaw to get the information. Idahc and Auth3ntic posted information about their feat, along with a sample of the e-mails they took, to the Web site Pastebin.com.
The hackers aren’t doing anything new. The same sort of exploit was used to break into SonyPictures.com, Sony Pictures Russion and other Sony-owned sites in recent weeks. In fact, Idahc seems to be on a crusade to teach Sony a lesson about bad security.
