Sony hacked, held ransom, shut down – or not?

Is this a sign of things to come?

Geek.com story  The Guardians of Peace (#GOP) hacked Sony  Pictures

 

Some specific details are on Reddit.com  When one person downloaded the stolen files and they reviewed the contents:

Email addresses (including the Guardians of Peace email addresses apparently) Files of internal Sony Financial reports.

 

But all types of files were stolen, including database (SQL), emailbox files (whole email boxes),

What is especially worrisome is the multiple password excel files that were copied.  This is a very bad method of keeping passwords.

 

Now these peoples, complete identity will be stolen, as the hackers have the full dossier of passwords for a number of Sony employees.

later in the post the reddit banter also reveals that the Sony employee Twitter accounts were compromised.

 

For example @StompTheYardDVD Twitter account was hacked. As well as @SoulSurferMovie

But when I checked both twitter accounts this morning they did not indicate the hack, regular Twitter promotional tweets were on the accounts.

Above is an image of when the accounts were hacked.

 

We should get some lessons out of this… Nopassword files on our computers…

 

If you must write down passwords – do it off the computer. Use old technology – Paper and Pen.

Because a hacker will find your password file named: Namepassword.xls

 

Contact us to Audit your systems.

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Update 1:21 pm CST…

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2851797/security0/fake-gop-pwns-sony-networks-worldwide.html

 

Computerworld has an interesting discussion, where the thought is maybe this “hack” was faked and is just a publicity stunt for another one of their movies (related to hackers maybe)

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Updated – Sony looks to have been hacked  after all since some brand new unreleased movies are being downloaded at piracy websites:

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/new-sony-films-pirated-in-wake-of-hack-attack-1201367036/

variety.com has the story (normally a site which discusses news about Hollywood studios)

So it looks like another large organization does not have the cyberskills to prevent attacks on their network.