Sony Pictures is investigating hackers' claims that they have stolen more than 1 million pieces of user information in another attack on the entertainment company's networks.
A group of hackers calling itself LulzSec said in a statement that it has obtained users' personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts.
Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp. of America, said Thursday that it is aware of LulzSec's claim and looking into it.
The data, carried in a plain text file posted to the hacking group's site, appeared to be at least partially genuine. The Associated Press called a number listed by LulzSec as belonging to 84-year-old Mary Tanning, a resident of Minnesota. Tanning picked up the phone, and confirmed the rest of the details listed by LulzSec, including her password, which she said she was changing.
"I don't panic," she told the AP, explaining that she was very seldom online and wasn't wealthy. "There's nothing that they can pick out of me," she joked.
If confirmed, the breach would deal yet another blow to Sony, which suffered a massive cyberattack in April that targeted credit card information through its PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment networks. Company executives on Thursday faced questions from U.S. lawmakers over why consumers weren't informed more quickly about the breach. Over 100 million user accounts were affected and the company only recently was able to restore service.
At the time, experts warned that the attack emboldened hackers and made them more willing to pursue sensitive information.
LulzSec said Thursday that none of the data it accessed from Sony was encrypted, "which means it's just a matter of taking it."
"This is disgraceful and insecure," the group said in its statement. "They were asking for it."
LulzSec recently claimed responsibility for hacking the website of PBS network to post a fake story in protest of a recent Frontline investigative news program on WikiLeaks.
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