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Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack

Posted by Soulskill on from the try-long-enough-and-you-find-a-soft-target dept.

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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  1. Dear Sony, I am delighted! by CaptainOfSpray · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Couldn't happen to a "nicer" bunch.

    Would I be right to believe the Sony Pictures, being part of the Sony conglomerate, are infected with the same high-handed corporate arrogance that we have seen at Sony Music? "cough" root kit "cough"

    I shall be wearing the smile today, all day.

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    1. Re: Dear Sony, I am delighted! by iluvcapra · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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.

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  2. Re:would prefer EA, Comcast, or Haliburton myself by v1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, what important, secret information does a film studio have, besides salary, and royalty numbers?

    Embarassing "creative accounting", heavier than expected use of offshore tax shelters and chip-shuffling, two sets of books, other illegal accounting, illegal campaign contributions, those are a lot more likely than the sort of "secrets" you're thinking of. They probably stand a lot more to lose there than from theft of R&D files.

    Nowadays your accounting department needs to be the most heavily defended portion of your network, and not due to direct theft. (unless you're in the business of mining bitcoins anyway)

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  3. Sony Pictures? by debrain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they should make a movie about this.