Sony pictures website hacked and millions accounts exposed

Sony pictures website hacked and millions accounts exposed

Lulzsec, a group hacker claimed to have compromised sonypictures.com and gained access to it's database of millions of user accounts. This group was also responsible for attacks against sony, some days ago. Lulzsec claimed to hack website database by simple SQL injection attack which a common attack against websites. 


They have owned the entire database of the website.  Database contains personal information of over 1 million people who had accounts on the website, 75,000 music codes and 3.5 million music coupons. Sony stored all passwords in form of plain texts which is really unsecure. Now it's recommended by all security experts for web developers to store passwords in encrypted forms. Group only decided to extract sample data for proof and leaked via pirate bay.

see this
http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/sownage_PRETENTIOUS%20PRESS%20STATEMENT.txt