As you have probably already heard, on November 24, the servers of the Sony Pictures film company, owned by the Japanese electronic giant, were hacked by unknown hackers. For the first time, official representatives of the studio commented on what happened in his address to the press.
We remind you that the hackers broke through the security system of one of the Sony Pictures servers and got access to almost all the studio’s internal information. In total, they obtained access to information on 47,000 employees of the company, including their social insurance data, salary information and many other confidential data. Even movie stars, including celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Sylvester Stalonné, were hit, as the scams of their passports, copies of contracts, personal portfolios and income data fell into the hands of intruders.
Among other things, the hackers managed to steal digital copies of four new Sony Pictures films (Rage, Annie, William Turner and Still Alice), two of which had not even been leased and were intended for to show them to members of the evaluation committee. Also, the entire internal network of the studio was completely incapacitated, which is why Sony Pictures literally stopped for a few days.
Hackers also got all the internal mail correspondence between studio employees, logins and passwords to numerous working Twitter accounts and much, much more. Volumes of the stolen information are already estimated in terabytes of data. Turning on their work computers, Sony Pictures saw a message from attackers from the hacker group Guardians of Peace on their monitor screens: “You are all criminals, including Michael Linton. So you go to hell. Nothing will save you. ” Michael Linton is the CEO and CEO of Sony Pictures. What is so bad hackers did this man - no one knows.
Initially, North Korea came under suspicion, which may have been trying to take revenge on Sony Pictures for the release of the movie “The Interview”, in which the heroes of James Franco and Seth Rogen should kill the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un. But the DPRK authorities officially disowned their participation in this hacker attack, although they approved the actions of cyber-terrorists, calling them “correct”.
After a thorough investigation of the “cyber traces” of the criminals left on the servers, the computer security specialist from Mandiant, Kevin Mandia, who was entrusted with the investigation of the hacker attack, sent his first conclusions on this to the management of Sony Pictures. And Sony, in turn, published this message on its website:
“Our team continues to restore the Sony Pictures server after a recent cyber attack targeting company employees and valuable data. I would like to share with you my first conclusions on this matter. This attack is unprecedented in nature. Malicious programs could not be detected using standard antivirus software. They were rather destructive and unique enough that we had to transmit the data to the FBI, so that they could warn other industry giants about possible attacks and on their servers too. The scale of this attack is different from all that we have seen up to this point. For the first time, hackers simultaneously tried to destroy someone else's property, as well as publish in open access a huge amount of confidential data. Analogs to such attacks simply do not exist. We are quite confident that this is a carefully planned operation, which was prepared by an organized group of high-class specialists. Against such an attack, no large company, even a very well protected one, could stand it. At the moment, our investigation is continuing, and we are constantly finding new leads in this case. ”
With the development of the Internet, the number of attacks on large companies and corporations is growing every day. No one can be 100% sure that his business is out of the zone of risk from malicious actions of hackers. Over the past year, the activity of cybercriminals has increased dramatically, and several dozen major organizations came under attack. None of the security experts knows whether the current situation will change in the coming years for the better. But we all definitely need to be more careful while we are in the global network.
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