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A press release from Anonymous regarding PSN !

Hackers steal 250,000 X Factor Details ! The FBI is reportedly investigating after hackers broke into Simon Cowell's computer network. Details of more than 250,000 X Factor entrants are said to have been stolen and Simon and bosses at American TV network Fox, are said to be scared that the thieves will use the details to make money. An official investigation has been launched and an email, which was seen by the Daily Star, was sent to all contestants to warn them about the security breach. It read: 'This week, we learned that computer hackers illegally accessed information you and others submitted to us to receive information about The X Factor auditions. 'It is possible that the information you did provide to us, which included your name, email address, zip code, phone number (which was optional), date of birth, and gender, may have been accessed. 'We are taking this matter very seriously and are working with federal law enforcement authorities to investigate t...

Anonymous Response to Sony : We didn't do it as we will never hurt the innocents ! Press Release as shown :  Last month, an unknown party managed to break into Sony's servers and acquired millions of customer records including credit card numbers. Insomuch as that this incident occurred in the midst of Anonymous' OpSony, by which participants engaged in several of our standard information war procedures against the corporation and its executives, Sony and other parties have come to blame Anonymous for the heist. Today, in a letter directed to members of Congress involved in an inquiry into the situation, Sony claimed to have discovered a file on its servers, presumably left by the thieves in question, entitled "Anonymous" and containing a fragment of our slogan, "We are Legion." In response, we would like to raise the following points: 1. Anonymous has never been known to have engaged in credit card theft. 2. Many of our corporate and governmental ad...

LastPass, one of the most popular cloud-based password management services, is forcing users to change their master passwords as a precaution after it discovered an unauthorized data transfer out of its network. In a post on its blog the company explains, in sufficient detail, what prompted this measure, why it was the best course of action and what it means for users. On May 3, the company detected larger than normal outbound traffic and immediately launched an internal audit to determine the source. Such transfers have been detected before, but each time the origin was determined to be an employee or an automated script. "In this case, we couldn't find that root cause. After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction. "Because we can't account for this anomaly either, we're going to be paranoid and assume the worst: that the data we stored in the database was some...

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