ANONYMOUS - OPERATION PAYBACK - Sony Press Release
http://www.carlyle.com/Team/item10936.html
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Yukio Kubota
Senior Advisor
Tokyo , Japan
Segment : Corporate Private Equity
Fund : Japan Buyout
Industry : Consumer & Retail
Technology & Business Services
Telecom & Media
Industrial
Technology & Business Services
Telecom & Media
Industrial
Yukio Kubota is a Senior Advisor focused on Japanese buyout opportunities in the technology sector. He is based in Tokyo.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Kubota was Chief Executive Officer of Willcom, where he managed the communications business. Prior to that, Mr. Kubota was a President of Sony Ericsson Japan and a Corporate Executive of Sony Corporation, where he developed a variety of digital products and managed consumer businesses.
Mr. Kubota received his M.S. and B.S. in physics from Waseda University.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=13636512&ticker=9749:JP&previousCapId=883090&previousTitle=FUJI%20SOFT%20INC
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BACKGROUND*
Yukio Kubota serves as a Director of Fuji Soft Abc Inc.CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS*
1-1 SakuragichoYokohama, Kanagawa 231-8008
Japan
Phone: 81 4 5650 8811
Fax: 81 4 5650 8810
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony
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On 25 May, Sony announced that its Sony Ericsson website in Canada and the Sony Music Entertainment website in Greece had been compromised, putting the personal information of more than 10,000 users at risk.[77] Security consultant Phil Lieberman said Sony's approach to customers that wanted to modify PlayStation 3 software, including the decision to sue Hotz, was a fatal mistake. "Telling them to bring it on is not the best strategy. I think Sony is beginning to understand it horribly underinvested in security," Lieberman said.[78][79] On 29 May 2011, a group called Lulz Security announced[80] a campaign against Sony, using language emblematic of the Anonymous movement. On 2 June 2011, Sony Pictures Entertainment was the subject of an attack, disclosing 1 million user passwords, which were then distributed via BitTorrent.[81]
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/02/sony-pictures-hacked-by-lulz-security-1-000-000-passwords-claim/
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Oh, Sony -- not again. We've just received numerous tips that Lulz Security has broken into SonyPictures.com, where it claims to have stolen the personal information of over 1,000,000 users -- all stored (disgracefully) in plain text format. Lulz claims the heist was performed with a simple SQL injection -- just like we saw the last time around. A portion of the group's exploit is posted online in a RAR file, which contains over 50,000 email / password combos of unfortunate users. We've downloaded this file (at our own risk, mind you) and can verify these sensitive bits are now in the wild, though it remains unclear if what's published matches reality. In addition to user information, the group has blurted out over 20,000 Sony music coupons, and the admin database (including email addresses and passwords) for BMG Belgium employees. Fresh off the heels of the PlayStation Network restoration, we're guessing the fine folks in Sony's IT department are now surviving solely on adrenaline shots.
Update: Sony Pictures has confirmed to Reuters that some of its websites have been hacked, and says that it's currently working with the FBI to identify the perpetrators.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/04/us-sonypictures-idUSTRE7530CP20110604
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Sony Centre Fire London Riots - Beginning of the fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZ_yVfRMXM&feature=related
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stalkinghorsebid.asp#axzz1Wa5Bz58v
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/pointblank-idUSL4E7JT2OK20110829
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Gores Group chosen "stalking horse" bidder for Point Blank
BANGALORE |
BANGALORE Aug 29 (Reuters) - Military contractor Point Blank Solutions Inc said it has entered into a "stalking horse" asset purchase agreement with an affiliate of private equity firm Gores Group. A stalking horse is a bidder chosen by a bankrupt company from a pool of potential bidders to make the first bid for its assets. Under the agreement, Gores will purchase substantially all of the company's assets. The sale is expected to be completed by November, Point Blank said in a statement. "Gores has a proven track record and a strong reputation for operational excellence and we believe they will be a great asset enabling the business to grow into the future," Point Blank Chief Executive Jim Henderson said in a statement. The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in April 2010, was formerly known as DHB Industries Inc and supplies body armor to U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. Its former chief executive, David Brooks, and another executive were found guilty by a jury in September last year of orchestrating a $190 million fraud. The bankruptcy case is In re : Point Blank Solutions Inc, Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware; Case No. 10-11255. (Reporting by Tanya Agrawal in Bangalore; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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June 21, 2011 Three Point Blank Solutions Inc. directors accused of standing by while the body-armor maker’s former top executive looted the firm have offered to settle claims against them, court papers show. Lawyers for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have asked a federal judge in Florida to put the agency’s lawsuit against Jerome Krantz, Cary Chasin and Gary Nadelman on hold while regulators “consider offers of settlement,” according to a June 17 court filing. The accords “would fully resolve this case” if they are accepted by the SEC, Christopher Martin, one of the agency’s Miami-based lawyers, said in the filing. Terms of the settlement offers weren’t made public in the filing. SEC officials accused Krantz, Chasin and Nadelman, who served as Point Blank’s independent directors, of aiding a $185 million fraud committed by David H. Brooks, the company’s ex- chief executive officer. A New York jury convicted Brooks in September of fraud and obstruction of justice charges over the accounting-fraud scheme.
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