A web page of the official Sony website in Thailand was hacked recently, redirecting the users to enter personal information on another fake webpage of an imposter Italian credit card company. It was disclosed by the security firm, F-Secure, on Friday that the hackers intended to, once again, steal personal and crucial information from customers.
Image via WikipediaRecently Sony has continuously been victim of high-level hacking. First attack was exposed in April, when hackers successfully broke into Sony PlayStation Network and stole a huge chunk of data from more than 77 million accounts. Later on the 2nd May, Sony further declared that hackers also stole another chunk of data, this time of almost 25 million user accounts via their Sony Online Entertainment website. The first attack on PSN is being considered to be the most large hack attack in the Internet history, which left the Sony devastated and it had to immediately suspend most of its services, including PlayStation Network, for almost a month.
"It's a Sony security issue," told a representative of F-Secure, Jennifer Kutz, The ISP of Sony, So-Net, immediately gave a heads up to all possible victims of this imposter website on Thursday. It informed that not only is its website was hacked but an intruder also broken their system to steal $1,225 worth virtual points from account holders.
Sony has been receiving bitter criticism from not only the press, but from governments and other authorities too, especially at the verdict of not informing its customers of the attack timely.
Just earlier this week, Sony shut down one of the pages of its websites immediately after it went online, asserting it had discovered loopholes on the webpage. This webpage was uploaded to instruct millions of users to recover their accounts by changing passwords. According to a security consultant, Josh Shaul, "Sony is going through a pretty rigorous process and finding the holes to fill." He added that "The hackers are going through the same process and they're putting their fingers in the holes faster than Sony can fill them."
So-Net gave an official statement declaring: "What we've done is stopped the So-Net point’s exchanges and told customers to change their passwords." This time almost 100,000 yen ($1,225) were stolen from various accounts, though there was no evidence discovered indicting any accounts in the online system were compromised. He said "At this point in our investigations, we have not confirmed any data leakage. We have not found any sign of a possibility that a third party has obtained members' names, address, birth dates and phone numbers."
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