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The UK Sunday Times today is reporting that hackers have stolen 'Michael Jackson's entire back catalogue and a wealth of unreleased material worth £160m.' The hackers allegedly downloaded more than 50,000 digital music files in the biggest ever cyber attack on a record company. 'Everything Sony purchased from the MJ estate was compromised' said a well placed source. The Jackson hack was dicovered weeks after a Playstation hack, from routine monitoring of social networking sites, Jackson fan sites and hacking forums. It caused Sony to check their systems and they found the breach. Sony identified the weakness and plugged the gap. The theft has implications for all living and dead Sony music artists :? . Sony music confirmed last night that it had been hacked and its Michael Jackson material stolen. A Sony source said that the company immediately alerted the MJ estate but had no obligation to make the theft public as it had not involved customer data. The company has contacted the cybercrime wing of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which has taken over the case. Two men appeared in court last week charged with offences under the Computer Misuse Act. They denied the charges and were remanded on bail. Sony really does not have good protection, if they got hacked AGAIN. But hey, look on the bright side we might get new unreleased MJ songs
That's bad! £160million worth of Michael Jackson's back catalogue has been stolen Michael Jackson's entire back catalogue has been stolen by internet hackers. Sony music suffered its second major security breach in a year, with thieves targeting songs and unreleased material by the superstar singer. It's alleged they downloaded more than 50,000 music files, worth £160million, in the biggest ever cyber attack on a music company. The news comes just a year after Sony paid £250million for the seven-year rights to the songs following Jacko's death. The contract with Jackson's estate also allowed them to release 10 new albums, including material from studio sessions produced during the making of some of the star's biggest albums. The singer, who died in June 2009 at the age of 50, had recorded unreleased duets with artists ranging from the late Freddie Mercury and Black Eyed Peas singer Will.i.am.
So this is about hackers who steal a "back" catalog?What's this now, a "back catalog"?Either it's a full catalog which is front seat published or it's some hits that are somewhere available already.Unreleased material goes into a safe anyway, especially if it is worth hundreds of millions of $$$.160 million pounds only for the complete catalog? Ooops, MJ just took a deep dive in value. Really?Do I believe this? NO.Back's stolen catalog gets on the thieves' trail to the UK? I'd say, Back's on the road to the UK. Where's my popcorn?I was expecting news, today. Blessings.
What the hell is "back catalogue" ? Non-native English speaker here...