Sony Playstation Social Media Accounts Hacked; Claims Psn Database Breach

After hacking social media accounts of HBO together with its widely watched exhibit Game of Thrones, a notorious grouping of hackers calling itself OurMine took command over the official Twitter together with Facebook accounts for Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) on Sunday.

After taking over the accounts, OurMine, Saudi Arabian grouping of hackers which claims to endure a "white hat" safety firm, posted its source tweet on sun evening, claiming to make got breached PlayStation Network together with stolen its database.

The tweet followed past times a serial of tweets encouraging the society to contact the hacking grouping through its website to purchase its information technology safety service inwards an endeavor to protect itself from futurity cyber attacks.

"PlayStation Network Databases leaked #OurMine," the source tweet past times OurMine on the compromised PlayStation Twitter trouble organization human relationship read. 

"No, nosotros aren't going to portion it, nosotros are a safety grouping if yous travel at PlayStation together with then delight become to our website," the followed Tweet read.

The hacking grouping also posted like content on the PlayStation Network's official Facebook page that has to a greater extent than than 37 1000000 followers.

Both tweets together with Facebook messages posted past times the hacking grouping were deleted shortly.

At the time, it is unclear if OurMine has access to PSN's database or their Tweets together with Facebook posts were simply to spread fearfulness alongside the society together with its customers.

However, the society suffered a massive information breach inwards 2011, when the PlayStation hack exposed the personal details of the entire PSN user base of operations (over 77 Million at the time), including users names, engagement of births, e-mail addresses, together with credit menu details.

The hacking incident was the largest identity theft on record, which forced Sony to nigh downwards its entire arrangement for virtually a month. Anonymous took responsibleness for the information breach.

Ourmine is the same hacking grouping that previously compromised social media accounts of major companies CEOs, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, together with Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

In the bulk of cases, Ourmine gains access to the social media accounts past times using credentials exposed inwards previous, publicly known information breaches.

However, the grouping does non look to e'er become beyond simply demonstrating its mightiness to accept over the account, without doing pregnant harm to the accounts or its protected information.

OurMine markets itself every bit a safety theatre that offers companies safety against cyber attacks, charging upwards to $5,000 for a "scan" of their social media accounts, site safety holes, together with other safety vulnerabilities.

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