PARIS, June 21 (UPI) -- Two hackers said they copied 177,172 e-mails from the Sony Pictures France Web site and posted 70 of them on the code-sharing site Pastebin.
The hackers claiming responsibility for the incident identify themselves as a Lebanese student who goes by the handle Idahc and his French friend Auth3ntiq, the technology news site CNET reported.
The hackers said they managed to lift the e-mail addresses through an SQL (structured query language) injection, a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application.
It's the same method that was used to extract personal data of customers from SonyPictures.com, Sony Pictures Russia, Sony Ericsson and Sony Music Entertainment Japan in recent weeks.
Jim Kennedy, executive vice president of communications for Sony Pictures, said the company is investigating the hackers' claim.
