PlayStation social media accounts were hacked by a well-known hacking group called “OurMine”, the group took control of the main PlayStation Twitter accounts late on Sunday.
“OurMine offers companies security against hacking, charging up to $5,000 for a “scan” of their social media accounts, site security holes, and other security vulnerabilities, and advertises its commercial services by breaking into famous accounts.”
The accounts were quickly recovered by Sony, and the tweets from the OurMine group were removed, but a few of Twitter users captured the moment before it was gone.
OurMine claiming to have breached PlayStation Network and taken its database:
“We got only registration info [usernames, names, emails, etc.]. No, we are not going to release it. We are a security group; we will only send it to Sony to prove it. And no, Sony haven’t contact us yet.”
The group also posted similar content on the official Facebook page that has millions of followers.
OurMine has earlier hacked the social media accounts of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek.
It is not known how the group infiltrated the Twitter accounts, but it seems that they found details in the publicly known data breaches of secret information emerging from a hack that occurred in July.