In 2011, Sony suffered breach after breach after breach — it was a very bad year for them. The breaches spanned various areas of the business ranging from the PlayStation network all the way through to the motion picture arm, Sony Pictures. A SQL Injection vulnerability in
sonypictures.com lead to
tens of thousands of accounts across multiple systems being exposed complete with plain text passwords.
Compromised data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames
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