Last month it was the turn of American users of the hugely popular Playstation. This time the victims are the Canadian customers of the Sony Ericsson telephone joint venture, the Thai site of the Japanese company and the Indonesian site of Sony Music. In the first case, the hackers would have taken possession of the names and e-mail addresses of about 2 customers. In the second they would have tried to use the Sony site to do phishing, or deceive surfers by convincing them to reveal their credit card details. In the third the hackers would be repelled before they could complete their mission. In recent weeks, there was another attack against the Sony Music website in Greece.
The identity of the "aggressors" remains unknown for the time being. However, suspicions are circulating about Anonymous, a group of hackers who in the past had clashed with the Japanese company, accused of having reported a playstation user who had changed the "code" on which the console runs. However, it is impossible to establish with certainty whether the group is directly involved in the attacks: they deny it and at least for the moment Sony has not formalized any accusations. But it is plausible that the hackers in action in recent weeks have drawn inspiration from colleagues at Anonymous.
