http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57390339-83/michael-jackson-back-catalog-stolen-in-sony-hack/

Sony's sad security song isn't finished yet.

Hackers have reportedly broken into the music label's servers and downloaded Michael Jackson's entire 50,000-track catalog, including many songs that have never been released, according to a report in Britain's Sunday Times (behind paywall). Sony purchased the catalog in 2010 from Jackson's estate for $250 million--billed as the biggest recording deal in history.

"Everything Sony purchased from the Michael Jackson estate was compromised," a source told the newspaper. "It caused them to check their systems and they found the breach. There was a degree of sophistication. Sony identified the weakness and plugged the gap."

Two men in the U.K. have been arrested and charged in the crime, according to The Guardian. They have reportedly been released on bail and are scheduled to stand trial in January 2012.

The intrusion, which netted collaborations with the Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am and late Queen front man Freddie Mercury, was discovered weeks after the massive security breach on Sony's PlayStation Network last April. After a mysterious weeklong outage on the service, the company finally informed some 77 million customers that critical personal information, including names, addresses, e-mail addresses, birthdays, usernames, and passwords were obtained illegally obtained by an "unauthorized person."


The entertainment and electronics giant eventually issued an apology and said it would provide its customers with free identity theft protection services. But that breach was followed up a month later with hacks on Sony Music Japan and Sony Ericsson's online store. Last June, the LulzSec hacker group released what it described as 54MB of source code from the Sony Computer Entertainment Developer Network as well as internal network maps of Sony BMG.

There is no word on whether the songs illegally downloaded have made an appearance on the Internet. However, protecting unreleased songs from unauthorized debuts has become a special challenge in recent years.













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Umm... thats an odd way to quantify things. Why not tell us how many songs it was.

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Now, here's a chance of MJ's music getting released, without Sony cashing in on it. Hopefully,,,,,

>They have reportedly been
>released on bail and are scheduled to stand trial in January
>2012.
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Explain.

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and it was mostly shit submitted by Eddie Cascio, the same person behind "Monster", "Breaking News", and "Keep Your Head Up"

This happened around January-February 2011 and when Sony found out, they immediately fixed the server, caught the 2 guys who did it (One being a mod on the biggest MJ forum) and got the songs back

Nothing's except for some snippets and 3 songs in edited form have leaked


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As Columbia Records, they have 124 years of archived recorded sound in their catalog. When Sony bought them, it opened things to a wealth of other music. So out of 124 years of music, you're just going to take MJ's music?

A few hours later, I read that it was two UK MJ fans who wanted to get his music, and somehow they did.

Question: why does Sony have their music on a hard drive that is easily accessible? I can understand tapping into the Sony Playstation database and getting personal information, but when you're a private company, why is your tape vault or in truth, your file storage unit accessible to anyone outside of the room it's in? It's a bit like someone who uses a computer as a work station. That computer is solely for your music projects and nothing but, you do not go online with it, you do not check Facebook, don't go on Twitter, don't go on Pinterest. Even a 6 year old beatmaker will know this.

It's laughable on so many labels. If you're a real hacker, why not search around and see what else exists? You're already doing a criminal act, but obviously they were not smooth criminals. It's a bit like being a jewel thief, only taking the diamonds in a vault but leaving everything else behind. What the fuck are you thinking?

A part of me would hate to think that this is prep work for a compilation to be released in October or November, featuring "previously unreleased material" from the Sony vaults. Then there will be a press release that says "these tracks were stolen by hackers, but we wanted to get them out on the market before they had a chance to do so." The album might sell well, and the court case will be brushed off as unimportant.

I'm sure Hollywood is thinking "yeah, have someone hack our shit."







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No other songs, just 12 particular tracks. they wanted the songs submitted by Eddie Cascio to leak them and render them useless when word spread that the second posthumous album would possibly include more of his submitted tracks

they were stupid for doing it and now they're gonna have to do time

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> It's a bit like someone who uses a computer
>as a work station. That computer is solely for your music
>projects and nothing but, you do not go online with it, you do
>not check Facebook, don't go on Twitter, don't go on
>Pinterest. Even a 6 year old beatmaker will know this.


Exactly. My comp with my music-making software and unreleased music isn't even connected to the internet for that VERY reason.

There have been cases of people hacking into people's shit and stealing unreleased joints. It happened to a friend of mine from some cat on a message board he frequented...

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