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BOSTON (Reuters) – The cyberspace volunteer assemble Anonymous denied responsibility for a cyber-attack on Sony Corp's networks that exposed the personal accumulation of more than 100 million recording gamers.

"Let's be clear, we are legion, but it wasn't us. You are incompetent Sony," Anonymous said on its Blog (anonops.blogspot.com) on Thursday.

Anonymous is a grass-roots cyber-vigilante assemble that launched attacks in December that temporarily closed downbound the sites of MasterCard Inc and Visa Inc using ultimate code tools freely acquirable over the Internet.

Sony spokesman Dan Race declined to interpret on the stylish Anonymous advise release, citing an current investigation.

The group's denial came a day after Sony live Anonymous was indirectly answerable for the move on the Asian electronics giant's networks. Sony made the averment in a letter to members of legislature conducting an inquiry into digit of the maximal computer breaches in history.

On Thursday, Anonymous began threatening a new target: Viacom Inc, the recreation colossus behindhand MTV's "Jersey Shore" and the hit film "Rango."

The assemble attacked Viacom for actuation its noesis from YouTube and suing the web-video site in a high-profile copyright misconduct case dating back to 2006.

"Anonymous demands from Viacom a public advise promulgation to admit and excuse for the humbug and crimes that they hit committed," the assemble said in a advise promulgation of its own.

A representative for Viacom declined interpret on the matter.

SONY ATTACK

Sony said its recording game meshwork was hacked at the aforementioned instance it was defending itself against a field denial-of-service move by Anonymous. A denial-of-service move makes a computer or grouping unavailable by overwhelming its meshwork with cyberspace traffic.

The move that stole the personal accumulation of jillions of Sony customers was launched separately, right when the consort was inattentive protecting itself against the denial-of-service campaign, Sony said.

The consort said it was not trusty whether the organizers of the two attacks were employed together.

Barrett Lyon, a section proficient who specializes in serving companies defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks, believes Anonymous is at small indirectly answerable for the Sony hacking.

"At the very small they naturalised the cum that convergent nefarious intention toward Sony," he said.

"It could hit been something that the Anonymous assemble started, but rattling couldn't stop. They impact like a lynch gangdom and it meet takes digit crazy mortal to keep going."

(Reporting by Jim Finkle; additional news by Yinka Adegoke; editing by Richard Chang and Andre Grenon)

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