Playstation Network attacked again?

A group of hackers have claimed to have attacked the already down and beaten Playstation Network, gaining access to over a million passwords, e-mail addresses and other information. This comes a day after the PSN was finally completely restored and will no doubt add more insecurity to it’s customers.

Lulz Security said it had broken into servers that run SonyPictures.com and released a statement after breaking into a database that included unencrypted passwords, claiming that “From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING,”. They carried on to say “Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks? What’s worse is that every bit of data we took wasn’t encrypted. Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plain text, which means it’s just a matter of taking it. This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it.”

Though what the hackers are doing is really getting out of hand and is down right sick, they do have a point. Why is Sony’s security so easy to bypass and, well, non-existent? Sony said it was aware of Lulz Security’s statement and was investigating the claims.

Source: BBC News