Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., film and television studio owned by Japanese electronics giant, based in Culver City, confirmed on Friday night that they have been compromised and has been working with the FBI to identify the perpetrators of the attack.
In a statement, Sony's studio chairman Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal said, "cyber crime wave that has been disturbing the Sony Corporation and a number of government agencies, companies and individuals in recent months also attacked Sony Pictures."
"(Thursday) afternoon, a group of criminal hackers, known as 'LulzSec' claim to have paved some of our pages,"the statement said. "We have confirmed that there had been break-ins and we have taken action to anticipate the next attack."
Studio (Sony) has hired "a team of professional experts from outside to perform forensic analysis result of the attack." In addition, Sony has contacted and cooperated with the FBI to identify and arrest the perpetrators. "
"We are very sorry and apologize to customers for any inconvenience caused by cyber crime,"the statement quoted by the Los Angeles Times.
On Friday, LulzSec, a hacker group claimed responsibility for hacking attacks against PBS and Sony's pages recently.
The group posted on the page Pastebin data and the Associated Press has reported that the same groups have been divulging personal information such as login names, passwords, addresses and phone numbers of participants who promoted Sony's contest.
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