verified2011-06-02
SonySony breach
sony.com · 37,103 records compromised
Records
37.1K
Breach date
2011-06-02
Domain
sony.com
Data classes
8
Description
In 2011, Sony suffered breach after breach after breach — it was a very bad year for them. The breaches spanned various areas of the business ranging from the PlayStation network all the way through to the motion picture arm, Sony Pictures. A SQL Injection vulnerability in sonypictures.com lead to tens of thousands of accounts across multiple systems being exposed complete with plain text passwords.
Compromised data classes· 8
Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addressesUsernames
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.