Official Sony PS3 Site Hacked

When you browse the online world most people keep away from sites that could be hiding nasty surprises in their code but we also know the types of sites that do this and keep away. Although it’s not always that easy as in some rare occasions big companies and brands get their sites hacked and this is when their users become vulnerable.

Today we are hearing that some of the gaming world may have been affected by hackers, PS3 Daily is reporting that the official Sony PS3 site has been hacked and pages on the US Sony PlayStation website have been exploited by an SQL injection vulnerability. The pages affected included those that promoted the games God of War and SingStar Pop.

The original news source was a security firm, Sophos. They said, “malware claims to undertake an antivirus scan and displays a fake message stating that the visitor’s computer has been infected”. Have you been affected by this problem?

PS3 daily summed up by saying “most of the people visiting this website would indeed think that a site of high caliber would never get infected by such hackers, sites like Sony’s have taken harsh precautions to stop hackers ever getting in, now and then it does happen though”.

This was just a rare occasion when a loophole was spotted by hackers and exploited, but Sony has enough money behind it to make sure its websites are properly hardened to prevent hackers from injecting malicious code. What more do you think Sony could do to stop this in the future?