I also didn't see anything on the welcome back pack when I logged in last night. I was trying to find some news on it when I came across this

Hackers attack another Sony network and post data

By Jim Finkle and Liana B. Baker

BOSTON/NEW YORK | Fri Jun 3, 2011 3:17am EDT

(Reuters) - Hackers broke into Sony Corp's computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant's systems, the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company.

LulzSec, a group that claims attacks on U.S. PBS television and Fox.com, said it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites. It published the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony.

"From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING," the hacking group said in a statement. "Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?"

The security breach is the latest cyber attack against high-profile firms, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin and Google Inc.

LulzSec's claims came as Sony executives were trying to reassure U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on data security in Washington about their efforts to safeguard the company's computer networks, which suffered the biggest security breach in history in April.

Sony has been under fire since hackers accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 percent of which are users in North America or Europe.

Sony said at the time credit card information may have been stolen, sparking lawsuits and casting a shadow over its plans to combine content and hardware products via online services. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the April attack.

It later revealed hackers had stolen data from 25 million users of a separate system, its Sony Online Entertainment PC games network, in a breach discovered on May 2.

Sony said it was investigating the breach claimed by LulzSec and declined to elaborate. Sony shares in Tokyo fell 0.6 percent on Friday, in line with the broader market.

The latest attack, unlike that on the PlayStation Network, was not on a revenue-generating Website and was likely to have no impact on earnings, analysts said.

Reuters confirmed the authenticity of the data on several contestants that LulzSec said it had published.

CYBER SECURITY

Cyber security is quickly rising up the agenda for global policymakers.

The Australian government said on Friday it will develop a cyber defense strategy and the United States said in a report in May that hostile acts in cyberspace would be treated just like any other threat to the country.

The hacking attack on Lockheed may have compromised the safety of SecureID tokens made by EMC Corp, while that on Google targeted, among others, senior U.S. government officials' data.

"These allegations are very serious," U.S. Secretary of States Hillary Clinton said of the Google attack, which the Internet giant said appeared to originate in China.

In the latest attack on Sony, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission could choose to review the circumstances leading up to the breach if Sony Pictures Entertainment failed to use proper procedures for protecting the data of its customers.

John Bumgarner, chief technology officer for the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit group that monitors Web threats, said he was not surprised that Sony's systems had again been breached.

"The system was unsecure," said Bumgarner, who last month warned of a string of security vulnerabilities across Sony's networks that he had identified.

He said he found vulnerabilities in the Sony Pictures Entertainment network as recently as last weekend.

The first hacking attacks in April prompted Sony to shut down its PlayStation Network and other services for close to a month.

The PlayStation games network and Qriocity, a video and music service, are back online except for some operations in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.

Representatives criticized Sony in the Congressional hearing for waiting several days to notify customers of the breach.

LulzSec has claimed responsibility for several hacks over the past month. It said it defaced the U.S. PBS television network's websites, and posted data stolen from its servers on Monday to protest a "Front Line" documentary about WikiLeaks.

It has also broken into a Fox.com website and published data about contestants for the upcoming Fox TV talent show, "X Factor."

LulzSec also said on Thursday it had hacked into Sony BMG Music Entertainment Netherlands and Belgium. It previously disclosed an attack on Sony Music Japan.

(Additional reporting by Diane Bartz in Washington, Mayumi Negishi in Tokyo; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Richard Chang and Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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These people must just stop this already!

ok at first it was funny, then i was angry but now its just funny

Surely there are more important things for these peeps to do then mess with Gamers... Eish...

Ya i'm not sure what they hope to achieve here... Everywhere is vulnerable to attack, not just Sony and all who think otherwise are idiots. So I'm not sure what these retards are hoping to achieve... Maybe they just all really wanna work for Sony...

Or Xbox fan boys ;- )

I'm just joking Xbox fan boys... and girls... ;- )

This attack wasn't on any of the gaming sites, but their European movie site. Apparently they used the same exploit as was used on PSN and Qriocity, which shows that Sony was so busy with that, that they forgot to secure their other servers. This has become so ridiculous that it is funny now.

Sony CIO and various other IT guys should be very nervous about their futures.

Good news, the welcome pack is available on the store. PSN is still unstable, lots ot error messages, quite frustrating!

Yup, same thing my side. Not surprised though, they must be getting so many requests, PSN users themselves could be considered as causing DDoS

Ironic really.

was working fine last night around 1am, and got my free games, but downloads are so slow it is not even funny.

My Downloads were flying until about 8:00pm last night but got my games now

Will download stuff from the welcome back pack on monday but yeah i think so many people raping the store it's having a hard time lol

It took around 6 hours last night to gte Ratchet and Clank and Dead Nation, but it got done. Now to find time to play those

Eventually managed to get my content as well. Had to use the "Account management" workaround but managed to dl Infamous and Dead Nation without problems, so looks like my line is fixed.
Started it last night at around 11pm and this morning it was done, 10gb approximately.

The DL was fine, if slightly slow. Problem was accessing the store itself and the getting content into the cart. I kept getting error messages, but afetr three or 4 tries I got through. All's well that end's well

I downloaded Wipeout HD, but apon installation at 14% in gives a curropted data error

@ Ralf Well you have now purchased the games so can DL it at any time now. I have had a couple of purchases DL corrupted files. just redownloaded them with no issues.

That happens sometimes. Ihad it happen with the Heavy Rain demo. Ill gor for Wipeout and probably Dead Nation I think.

Got Wipeout HD already took just a bit over 3hours to download and installed fine, will probably start my Infamous download tomorrow night so can run through the night and be done in the morning!

SurrealTiggi said ...

Eventually managed to get my content as well. Had to use the "Account management" workaround but managed to dl Infamous and Dead Nation without problems, so looks like my line is fixed.
Started it last night at around 11pm and this morning it was done, 10gb approximately.

Just for those who don't know what he is talking about

Q: I no longer have the option to choose my free Welcome Back games. What can I do?
A: If you navigate away from the Welcome Back section of the store without choosing your free games or exit the store completely you may need to follow the below in order to choose and download your free games.

On your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable navigate to the PlayStation Network icon on the XMB
Log into your PlayStation Network account and choose Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List
Choose “PlayStation Network Promotions” from the list of services displayed
Select either “PS3 Free Games” or “PSP Free Games” and then choose “Select Content”

You will be taken to the store to choose your remaining free games.

Magius said ...

@ Ralf Well you have now purchased the games so can DL it at any time now. I have had a couple of purchases DL corrupted files. just redownloaded them with no issues.

yes but not all of us have uncapped, i only have a 2Gig p/m so that leaves me sad