More hacking emerges at Sony

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Agencies: Tokyo, May 25 2011, 20:31 IST

Sony said on Tuesday that the website of its music unit in Greece was hacked, compromising the personal information of about 8,500 customers registered as fans of its artiste. The news of the new data breach came even as the Sony share bounced from two-month lows on expectations it might have put its troubles behind it after the electronics conglomerate said this year's operating profit would match last year's, easing worries about the impact of the March earthquake.

Sony spokesman Shigenori Yoshida said that personal data including names, phone numbers and email addresses may have been stolen. Yoshida said no credit card numbers have been affected. Sony shut the website on Sunday and is investigating the attack. Yoshida could not provide further details. Sony Music Indonesia's website was also defaced.

Its PlayStation Network system was hacked last month, affecting more than 100 million users worldwide and forcing the company to shut down the popular online gaming service. Sony said it aims to fully restore the service by the end of May. SonyMusic.gr was attacked with an SQL injection method and customer names, user names and email addresses of potentially more than 8,300 users were posted on Pastebin.com, The Hacker News reported on Sunday.

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