2011《財富》最愚蠢商業事件大盤點（下）

索尼慘遭黑客帽子戲法羞辱

????2011年的春天對于索尼公司（Sony）來說猶如夢魘一般——該公司運行的3個獨立游戲系統先后都遭到了大規模的黑客攻擊。

????4月22日，索尼披露了第一起黑客攻擊事件：一個“外部入侵”攻破了它的PlayStation網絡和流媒體服務網站Qriocity。一周后，索尼公司承認用戶的個人信息（或許還包括信用卡賬號）已經被盜。多達7,700萬用戶的敏感信息危在旦夕。

????5月2日，又傳來一個更糟糕的消息。索尼公司的另一個部門索尼在線娛樂（Sony Online Entertainment）透露稱黑客已進入了用戶信息庫，并隨即切斷了網絡服務。黑客們或許還從一個源自2007年的過時數據庫中獲得了國際用戶的財務信息。

????索尼的麻煩并沒有因黑客“帽子戲法”的結束而終結。6月份，黑客組織Lulz Security在網上發布了一些零散的數據，稱這些數據正是它在侵入索尼網站之后，從100多萬個用戶賬號中獲取的。Lulz Security還表示，索尼公司以純文本形式保存了100多萬位用戶的密碼，而且沒有對其進行加密，這一切都是該公司“自找的”。這份聲明無疑在索尼的傷口上又撒了一把鹽。——朱利安?波比頓

Sony gets hacked -- again and again

????Spring 2011 was a nightmarish time for Sony as it struggled to recover from massive hack attacks on three separate gaming systems it runs.

????Sony disclosed the first hack on April 22, saying that an "external intrusion" had breached its PlayStation Network and its media streaming service Qriocity. A week later, Sony admitted that personal information and maybe credit card numbers had been stolen. Sensitive details for a whopping 77 million customers were at risk.

????On May 2, things got worse. Another division, Sony Online Entertainment, took its Web services offline after revealing that hackers gained access to its databases of subscriber information. Hackers may have also obtained financial information for international users from an outdated database from 2007.

????The hack hat trick didn't end Sony's problems. In June, hacker group Lulz Security posted online snippets of data it said came from a breach of more than 1 million user accounts on Sony's website. Lulz's statement twisted the knife, saying Sony was "asking for it" by storing more than 1 million user passwords in plain text instead of encrypting them. -- Julianne Pepitone