After taking over the accounts, OurMine, Saudi Arabian grouping of hackers which claims to hold upward a "white hat" safety firm, posted its rootage tweet on Lord's Day evening, claiming to stimulate got breached PlayStation Network as well as stolen its database.
The tweet followed past times a serial of tweets encouraging the companionship to contact the hacking grouping through its website to purchase its information technology safety service inward an endeavor to protect itself from hereafter cyber attacks.
"PlayStation Network Databases leaked #OurMine," the rootage tweet past times OurMine on the compromised PlayStation Twitter trouble concern human relationship read.
"No, nosotros aren't going to portion it, nosotros are a safety grouping if you lot locomote at PlayStation as well as then delight instruct to our website," the followed Tweet read.The hacking grouping also posted like content on the PlayStation Network's official Facebook page that has to a greater extent than than 37 1000000 followers.
At the time, it is unclear if OurMine has access to PSN's database or their Tweets as well as Facebook posts were merely to spread fright amid the companionship as well as its customers.
However, the companionship suffered a massive information breach inward 2011, when the PlayStation hack exposed the personal details of the entire PSN user base of operations (over 77 Million at the time), including users names, appointment of births, e-mail addresses, as well as credit bill of fare details.
The hacking incident was the largest identity theft on record, which forced Sony to close downward its entire arrangement for nearly a month. Anonymous took responsibleness for the information breach.
Ourmine is the same hacking grouping that previously compromised social media accounts of major companies CEOs, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, as well as Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
In the bulk of cases, Ourmine gains access to the social media accounts past times using credentials exposed inward previous, publicly known information breaches.
However, the grouping does non look to always instruct beyond merely demonstrating its mightiness to accept over the account, without doing pregnant harm to the accounts or its protected information.
OurMine markets itself every bit a safety theatre that offers companies safety against cyber attacks, charging upward to $5,000 for a "scan" of their social media accounts, site safety holes, as well as other safety vulnerabilities.
