Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack

MojoKid writes: It appears that Sony Pictures has become the victim of a massive ransomware hack, which has resulted in the company basically shutting down its IT infrastructure. According to an unnamed source, every computer in Sony's New York Office, and every Sony Pictures office across the nation, bears an image from the hacker with the headline "Hacked By #GOP" which is then followed by a warning. The hacker, or group, claims to have obtained corporate secrets and has threatened to reveal those secrets if Sony doesn't meet their demands.

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Re:Dear Sony, I am delighted!

[Anonymous Coward]

It borked CD-drivers, CD burning software and DVD player software.
Often with BSOD's as a result.

People replaced CD-drives thinking they were broken.
Only to find that the new drive was borked from the start too.

You call that benign ?

Oh... Before I forget. Sony was a share-holder in F-Secure at the time.
No wonder F-Secure tried to put it in ass good a light as possible.

Re: Dear Sony, I am delighted!

[iluvcapra]

I work for Sony Picture on projects as a sound designer from time to time, I wasn't there yesterday.

Sony Pictures is an almost completely distinct operation from "Sony." The studio itself is just the old Columbia Pictures, that Sony bought in 1990. The lot itself was the old MGM/Lorimar lot-- all the long-time staff at Sony are either Columbia people or MGM people. You can go years there without meeting a Sony corporate exec, they leave the place alone and just a let it do its thing.