Hackers have broken into the music archive of Sony including unreleased songs of Michael Jackson. Sony would be the burglary last year have discovered, but it now comes to light only because the perpetrators before the courts.
The possible perpetrators, two Britons named James Marks and James McCormick, appeared last week before the court for inter alia, violation of copyright and unauthorised entry systems linked to the hack on Sony, reports the British newspaper The Guardian. They were all arrested in may last year.
Sony has to the British newspaper The Sun confirmed that the hack has occurred, but do not want to lose how much the hackers actually have downloaded it. A source did to the British Sunday Times to tell us that there are 50,000 tracks were downloaded, including the complete catalogue of Michael Jackson. This catalogue includes previously unreleased tracks from the deceased singer, with rapper Will.I.AM and passed away in 1991, Queen singer Freddy Mercury. Of any other artists unreleased work stolen, is unclear.
The discovery of the break-in at the music followed the hacks in Playstation Network in april of last year, where the data of 77 million Sony customers were stolen. Sony checked after the hack all their systems for possible leaks. When was this break-in was discovered, told the source. Exact details of the hack are not known, only that the leak is now poem is. Sony paid for the rights to more than 190 million to the family of the 2009 death of Michael Jackson.