Sony suffers second hacker attack.
04/05/11 07:41 Filed in: Cybersecurity
Sony has suffered another blow to its brand reputation after warning an additional 25 million customers may have had their details stolen in a newly discovered attack by hackers.
The electronics giant has now disabled a second online network, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), that houses massive multiplayer online (MMO) and Facebook games, after it was found to have been hacked last month.
Sony says personal information of 24.6 million customers including passwords, direct debit records and birthdates may have been stolen in the hack, discovered by its engineers earlier this week.
The techniques used for both recent Sony hacks appear to have been straightforward SQL injection hacks to the Sony database, which could have easily been prevented with basic security measures including Web Application Protection and Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), both of which are available in IBM Security Network IPS.
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