Late final month, Sony’s techniques had been supposedly breached by a brand new hacker group who threatened to leak the compromised knowledge after the corporate stubbornly refused to present in to their calls for. To be honest, the info being held for ransom appeared like they had been simply random information stolen off of a lifeless Japanese FTP server and didn’t look as in the event that they had been essential sufficient to matter.

Compared, one other knowledge breach at Sony lately got here to gentle which included extra delicate info. The breach apparently occurred again in Could however Sony solely admitted to it earlier this week after studying concerning the incident in June.

In accordance with Bleeping Laptop, Sony despatched a memo to 1000’s of present and former workers in addition to their family members, informing them that its third-party FTP server was compromised earlier this yr. Hackers had been apparently capable of acquire entry to the private info of precisely 6791 workers and their households, though the memo means that the perpetrators had been solely capable of get names and passwords.

Sony confirmed that the hackers had been certainly capable of obtain the information however claims that it’s not conscious of any leaks or misuse of the compromised knowledge. Nevertheless, the corporate is providing credit score monitoring and id restoration providers to these affected by the info breach.