Sony has reported another security breach, this time a hacker attack that affects 8,500 user accounts on Sony Music Entertainment Greece websites where fans can subscribe to newsletters.
The company told Dow Jones Newswires that it had discovered the attack on Sunday evening, the same day that security firm Sophos and Hacker News pointed it out.
Usernames, passwords, email addresses and phone numbers were all stolen in the attack, Sony told Dow Jones Newswires, but no credit card numbers were involved in the free sites. Sony says it immediately shut down the websites and will restore them after a security review.
The security breach comes less than two weeks after Sony restored its PlayStation Network. The company had shut down the network on April 20 after discovering an attack that compromised user information from 77 million accounts. Later the company admitted that the hackers attacked Sony Online Entertainment at the same time and may have stolen information from another 24.6 million accounts.