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LONDON — Sony has been hit by a second massive data breach, hackers claim, another potential embarrassment for a company that is struggling to restore its image after the loss of millions of credit card numbers through its PlayStation Network.
The hackers, who call themselves LulzSec, said they pulled off what they described as an elementary attack to highlight Sony’s “disgraceful” security.
“Every bit of data we took wasn’t encrypted. Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext, which means it’s just a matter of taking it,” LulzSec said in a statement. “They were asking for it.”
Sony Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Corp. of America, said Thursday that it is aware of the LulzSec statement.
