Hackers point finger over Sony incursion

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One Anonymous member told the FT that he saw technical details of a vulnerability in Sony’s network that enabled the break-in discussed on an Anonymous chat room, shortly before the intrusion.

“The hacker that did this was supporting OpSony’s movements,” the Anonymous activist told the FT

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“No credit card information was ever exposed, neither was over 100 million accounts,” the Anon said. “They had access to their databases, yes, but nothing was downloaded except a few admin accounts. Nothing has been exposed, no one is selling anything.”

So what do you do with admin accounts?

He claimed only a few Sony administrator accounts were stolen and distributed by the other members, though they could have been used later for wider theft of data.

The plot thickens.

 

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flip now that you mention it, I remember reading that some kid had threatened to bring sony to its knees- at the time I was thinking "what a dork, what does he think he is going to do." I eat my words