Sony: “50,000 Songs Were Stolen By Hackers”
The other day, Sony admitted that at around the same time their PlayStation user database was hacked last year (77 million accounts were compromised), hackers took the copies of the entire Michael Jackson back catalogue.
But these weren’t the only thefts. Apparently a total of 50,000 tracks were stolen.
Not “stolen” in “they aren’t there anymore” but “stolen” as in “made unauthorized copies of.” Still, what escaped into the wild was rather interesting. This included MJ duets with Freddy Mercury which had never been heard.
Sony has yet to break down exactly what was copied, but guesses are these tracks belonged to the Foo Fighters, Paul Simon, Avril Lavigne, Pearl Jam, Leonard Cohen, AC/DC, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Duran Duran, Oasis, The Offspring, Ozzy…the list goes on. This is all conjecture at this point, of course, but with 50,000 tracks fleeing the coop, the odds of these files being on torrent sites somewhere is pretty good.
