A series of high-profile attacks on similarly high-profile websites last year left not only IT managers, but chief financial officers all over the world mopping their brows and muttering “there but for the grace of God go I”.
Sony was the highest-profile victim of attacks by LulzSec, a hacker group, and faced significant brand damage when LulzSec members accessed several of its sites and stole more than 1m user passwords.
To add insult to the injury of those whose details had been stolen, it transpired that the passwords were not even encrypted: they were stored in plain text.
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