Databases used to operate sonypictures.com, sonybmg.nl, and sonyBmg.be have been compromised by a group calling itself Lulz Security. This is the same group that earlier in the week hacked PBS’s servers in retaliation for a documentary felt to be critical of Wikileaks. The hackers retrieved account information from the database. They claim there are more than a million accounts in total; their BitTorrented dump just contained a sample. Some accounts also included names, phone numbers and full postal addresses.”]
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/sony-hacked-yet-again-plaintext-passwords-posted/