Article: Sony says "Anonymous" set stage for data theft

[Cabalo]

You can view the page at https://filesharingtalk.com/content/9...for-data-theft

[proforma]

"Sony" set stage for data theft...

by behaving like pricks. Trusted Systems suck and Sony used them to treat their customers like shit.

[mjmacky]

in protest of Sony defending itself against a hacker in federal court in San Francisco

Isn't that backwards, wasn't the "hacker" the defendant in San Francisco, while Sony was the aggressive and mal-intentioned plaintiff?

[taniquetil]

I thought that Anonymous had denied responsibility for the attack.

[duke0102]

This really is pathetic, who are they going to blame for there own incompetence next?

[EyeCandy]

So, to me, this either seems like a small group of Anonymous "members" who found a security exploit, took advantage of it, maybe stole a bit of information for their own personal use, and then left a note as a sort of jab at them, or an attack by a different group that used the Anonymous slogan as a way of deflecting the blame.

[shipwreck]

Either way, Sony are fucked, which is a good thing.

[Sporkk]

Either way, Sony are fucked, which is a good thing.

I agree but so are the customers that had data stolen which is a bad thing.

[mjmacky]

You take that risk as a Sony customer, allowing them access to sensitive information. It all goes with how much trust you put into a company. My PayPal may have a lot of important information, but my Newegg doesn't have so much as a stored credit card number. So if you trusted Sony with that, it's on you as much as it's on them.

[Sporkk]

So if you trusted Sony with that, it's on you as much as it's on them.

I was not aware of any common knowledge that sony was not capable of securing private information. For all you know your paypal could get hacked tomorrow and I could say it's on you as much as it's on them.

If the hackers did this to make money off people I don't find that heroic at all. The world is full of shit. Is there such a thing as good guys or a good company anymore?