Hacker Group Claims Responsibility for New Sony Break-In

A hacker group calling itself LulzSec claimed responsibility for breaking into a Sony Web site and stealing the personal information of about 52,000 customers. The group, which also claimed this week that it hacked sites belonging to PBS, said it used a “simple” attack on a “primitive” security hole that gave it full access to Sony Pictures’ internal database. In a posting to Pastebin and several other Web sites, the group claimed it infiltrated SonyPictures.com and accessed a database that contained personal information belonging to more than 1 million customers, including passwords, e-mail addresses, home addresses and dates of birth. The group also said it found 75,000 “music codes” and 3.5 million “music coupons.”