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SonyMusic.gr: 450 Users' Data Exposed In Major Security Breach

Calendar May 23, 2011 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Sony's high-profile security problems continued over the weekend after news that the firm's Greece-based BMG music web site and ISP subsidiary So-Net were the latest services to be hacked. User names, real names and addresses of 450 Sonymusic.gr users were obtained by a hacker and uploaded to pastebin.com over the weekend.

Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at Sophos Canada, advised users of SonyMusic.gr to reset their passwords and assume that any personal information entered on the site is now in the hands of someone with malicious intentions.