What the Sony Hack Looked Like To Employees (slate.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:32AM from the behind-the-scenes dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The cyber attack on Sony was one of the highest profile hacks in the past several years. Slate tracked down two dozen people who worked there at the time, and asked them what it was like on the inside while it was happening. Quoting: "The telephone directory vanished. Voicemail was offline. Computers became bricks. Internet access on the lot was shuttered. The cafeteria went cash-only. Contracts—and the templates those contracts were based on—disappeared. Sony's online database of stock footage was unsearchable. It was near impossible for Sony to communicate directly with its employees—much less ex-employees, who were also gravely affected by the hack—to inform them of what was even happening and what to do about it. 'It was like moving back into an earlier time,' one employee says." Some employees had their workloads doubled, some had nothing to do. While the hack brought the company together at the beginning, it eventually descended into recriminations and lawsuits.

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Re:They aren't really still blaming DPRK, are they by myrdos2 · 2015-11-23 08:10 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'd hoped that you'd gotten it through your skull
About what's figurative and what's literal
But just now
You stated
You literally couldn't do anything computer related
That really makes me want to literally
Uh... Go back in time so your parents never dated? ...That seems kind of harsh.
*Looks up PCoIP*. Ah, shit.