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That makes this massive embarrassing hack lucky number 7 since 2008, if you’re keeping score at home, which just on its face is bad. Those are LastPass numbers, guys. Get a hold of yourselves.
Now, on the bright side, Sony hasn’t had an issue since 2017. On the less bright side, Ransomware group ransome.vc claims that they’ve accessed at least 6,000 files from Sony as of September 25th. “We have successfully compromised all of Sony systems… due to Sony not wanting to pay, data is for sale.”
The group did post a small proof-of-hack, and the files listed appear to be build logs, java resources, and HTML. There’s also a number of internal PowerPoints describing various testing and benchmarking efforts, which I’m sure we’re all absolutely on pins and needles to get our hands on.
Amusingly the proof-of-hack also includes an executive summary that describes Sony, just in case nobody is sure which Sony they mean. Obviously it’s too early to tell how bad things are, but if no one buys the data it will be released at the end of this week. I for one cannot wait to mock Sony’s poor color matching and criticize the bloat in that PowerPoint deck. You used Papyrus in there didn’t you Sony? I know that you did!