Computer hackers have allegedly stolen the late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s entire back-catalogue today, almost two years after Sony Music paid £158million for it following his death in 2009.
The package, which includes previously un-released material from albums such as ‘Thriller’ and ‘Bad’ as well as rare duets with singers like late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am. Sony have yet to make their views on the incident known but a source told The Sunday Times that ‘everything’ the company had purchased ‘was compromised’.
“Everything Sony purchased from the Michael Jackson estate was compromised,” the paper reported. “It caused them to check their systems and they found the breach. There was a degree of sophistication. Sony identified the weakness and plugged the gap.”
Sony released an initial wave of unreleased material back in 2010 with ‘Michael’, but the company have had a trouble time with the posthumous record, with Michael’s daughter Paris recently taking to press in an attempt to rubbish claims that she said that an impersonator sang on the tracks on the album’.
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