With all the hacking of government Web sites and smaller gaming companies, it seemed like people had almost forgotten about Sony. Not so fast. Two hackers on Sunday said they had successfully targeted the Web site for Sony Pictures in France.
A Lebanese hacker known as Idahc and a French hacker known as Auth3ntiq took responsibility for the attack via a note on Pastebin.
"We found a sql injection on sonypictures.fr," Idahc wrote. "But we will not publish all the database and we didn't upload a shell (because the load_file wasn't disable)."
The duo listed a few of the emails that were in the database, many of which were Yahoo or Hotmail addresses. Sonypictures.fr is currently offline; the company has not addressed the hack on its Twitter feed.
This is not the first time Idahc has targeted Sony. In May, the hacker took responsibility for infiltrating Sony Ericsson Canada's eShop, an online store for mobile phones and accessories. Idahc accessed the personal details of thousands of users, and posted it on Pastebin, as well as on users' Facebook and Twitter accounts, forcing Sony to shut down the site. In June, Idahc also targeted the Sony Europe site.
SonyPictures.com, meanwhile, was targeted by hacker group LulzSec earlier this month. They gained access to 37,500 records, though the data did not include credit card, Social Security, or drivers license numbers. On Monday, LulzSec and Anonymous joined forces for an effort they are dubbing "Operation Anti-Security."