With what happened with the recent hacking of the Sony Corporation, which shocked the US and the entire world at large. Sony Corp. told US lawmakers that they found a taunting message during a recent computer attack but it still doesn't know who stole personal information from more than 100 million of its online-gaming accounts. Sony, in a letter to Congress released on Wednesday said the hackers didn't leave any traces of their attacks, which is lead to be the biggest data breaches up to date. But Sony said it discovered a file left on its servers called "Anonymous. The contents of that file said "We are Legion," which is the tag line of a loosely affiliated group of Internet vigilantes dubbed Anonymous.
Since the breach, Sony has been under intense scrutiny and its videogame chief, Kazou Hirai, has been under fire. Adding to the political pressure, New York's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, Tuesday issued subpoenas to Sony for documents related to its security systems, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Sony's letter to lawmakers was its response to a request from a congressional committee examining data-breach issues.In its letter, Sony said it was the "victim of a very carefully planned, very professional, highly sophisticated criminal cyber attack designed to steal personal and credit card information for illegal purposes."
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