Search forums

Forums

Export thread

The Hack of Sony.

Dec 3, 2014#1

Dave

Not sure if you guys have been following this, but it's really wild. A hacker group calling itself #GOP got almost completely unrestricted access to Sony's entire network. They stole over 100 TB of data and have only released a small portion of it - like SSNs, totally unreleased movies, scripts that have not even been shot, criminal background checks, medical records. You name it, it has been gotten.

How can such a big and supposedly smart company have such abysmal data security?

http://gizmodo.com/the-sony-pictures-hack-exposed-budgets-layoffs-and-3-1665739357/1666122168/+ace

Dec 3, 2014#2

Ravenpoe

Hey hey hey, they took precautions! This time, they made the admin password "password1"

Dec 3, 2014#3

PatrThom

I hear the Iranians pretty much pwned much of the world recently, too.

--Patrick

Dec 3, 2014#4

Bowielee

When I saw the title, I was worried about my PS+ account again.

Dec 3, 2014#5

blotsfan

I wish it was Disney so we'd get more info about Star Wars.

Dec 3, 2014#6

GasBandit

The news coverage is driving me bonkers. They keep going on and on about how this is the first hack of its kind "on an American company."

Sony isn't an american company.

Dec 3, 2014#7

Mathias

GasBandit said:
The news coverage is driving me bonkers. They keep going on and on about how this is the first hack of its kind "on an American company."

Sony isn't an american company.

Sure it is, just like MagnetBox and Sorny!

Dec 3, 2014#8

Dave

Looks like the people behind it may very well be....North Korea.

:Leyla:

Dec 3, 2014#9

GasBandit

Dave said:
Looks like the people behind it may very well be....North Korea.

That's what I heard early on too. Apparently the software they used to do the intrusion had korean language in it. Speculation is it's in retaliation for Sony's upcoming movie that features a plot to kill Dear Leader.

Dec 3, 2014#10

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
That's what I heard early on too. Apparently the software they used to do the intrusion had korean language in it. Speculation is it's in retaliation for Sony's upcoming movie that features a plot to kill Dear Leader.

So this is all Seth Rogan and James Franco's fault?

Dec 4, 2014#11

Frank

North Korea could also be massive Xbox fanboys.

In seriousness though, this is a pretty devastating blow to Sony (which is already in rough shape) and to the thousands of people who's livelihoods are at stake.

Dec 8, 2014#12

bhamv3

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30373686

Playstation Network hacked, brought down. Hacker group claims responsibility.

From my layman's view, this seems quite different from the movie hack last week. This one merely brought down PSN, while the movie hack was a theft of data. I could easily be wrong though.

Dec 8, 2014#13

Hailey Knight

bhamv3 said:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30373686

Playstation Network hacked, brought down. Hacker group claims responsibility.

From my layman's view, this seems quite different from the movie hack last week. This one merely brought down PSN, while the movie hack was a theft of data. I could easily be wrong though.

It appears to just be a DDOS attack, so no info should've been taken. However, they are saying there will be "more to come," so whether that means against PSN or Sony in general, no idea.

They'd better not get people's data again. Sony should've upped the PSN's security after last time and it'll be a major failing on their part if they fuck that up again.

Dec 8, 2014#14

AshburnerX

Zero Esc said:
They'd better not get people's data again. Sony should've upped the PSN's security after last time and it'll be a major failing on their part if they fuck that up again.

I don't think anyone can reasonably claim that Sony should have been ready to counter and prevent an attack from a state-sponsered source. That's like blaming your bank because it got robbed by the North Korean People's Army.

Dec 8, 2014#15

Hailey Knight

AshburnerX said:
I don't think anyone can reasonably claim that Sony should have been ready to counter and prevent an attack from a state-sponsered source. That's like blaming your bank because it got robbed by the North Korean People's Army.

I mean on PSN.

Dec 8, 2014#16

GasBandit

AshburnerX said:
I don't think anyone can reasonably claim that Sony should have been ready to counter and prevent an attack from a state-sponsered source. That's like blaming your bank because it got robbed by the North Korean People's Army.

There's reasonable, and then there's keeping your password lists in unencrypted plain text in a folder called "passwords."

Dec 8, 2014#17

PatrThom

Oh, fer...

--Patrick

Dec 8, 2014#18

SpecialKO

...okay, at this point, I can only guess that this is a marketing ploy to promote the film, because this is just silly.

Dec 8, 2014#19

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Oh, fer...

--Patrick

Dec 8, 2014#20

PatrThom

I mean, sure, I keep my passwords in a text file on my computer, but they're obfuscated, the file isn't named "StealMePasswordsHereInPlain.TXT" or anything, and it's one of my old computers so it is kept offline.

--Patrick

Dec 8, 2014#21

Ravenpoe

PatrThom said:
I mean, sure, I keep my passwords in a text file on my computer, but they're obfuscated, the file isn't named "StealMePasswordsHereInPlain.TXT" or anything, and it's one of my old computers so it is kept offline.

--Patrick

Aha, let's see what's in this "notporn" folder...

... huh, it's not porn.

Dec 8, 2014#22

PatrThom

Ravenpoe said:
Aha, let's see what's in this "notporn" folder...
... huh, it's not porn.

You jest, but I used to keep a folder named something like "Totally Not Porn" in my Documents folder.
In it? An empty folder named "Made You Look."

I'm just that kind of person.

--Patrick

Dec 8, 2014#23

bhamv3

My porn used to be hidden in a folder in my /Lionhead/Black and White/Creatures/Creatures Mind directory. No one would ever think to go searching for porn in a video game's directory, especially not among the files that controlled my creature's AI.

I liked to go around searching for other people's porn when I got to borrow their computers, though. Usually I'd leave a text file called FoundIt.txt when I did.

Dec 8, 2014#24

GasBandit

I'm so boring. All my porn is in a folder called porn.

The porn isn't boring, though.

Dec 8, 2014#25

Krisken

I have no porn on my computer. Huh, I don't have any porn. That's kinda weird, right?

Dec 8, 2014#26

GasBandit

Krisken said:
I have no porn on my computer. Huh, I don't have any porn. That's kinda weird, right?

Dude, I have porn on my computer that is 16 years old.

Er, the file creation date. Not the star.

Dec 8, 2014#27

PatrThom

bhamv3 said:
I liked to go around searching for other people's porn when I got to borrow their computers, though.

SpaceMonger
Disk Inventory X

--Patrick

Dec 8, 2014#28

Krisken

GasBandit said:
Dude, I have porn on my computer that is 16 years old.

Er, the file creation date. Not the star.

I knew a guy who bought a terabyte hard drive back when they first came out so he would have room for his porn. He was what one would call a connoisseur. Or maybe gross.

Dec 8, 2014#29

Ravenpoe

I'm just gonna say... if you borrow my cell phone, you don't have to go far to find tits on it.

Dec 8, 2014#30

Chad Sexington

Ravenpoe said:
I'm just gonna say... if you borrow my cell phone, you don't have to go far to find tits on it.

I was going to bring that up, actually: you really have to stop sending me pictures of your moobs.

Dec 8, 2014#31

Ravenpoe

Chad Sexington said:
I was going to bring that up, actually: you really have to stop sending me pictures of your moobs.

NEVER!

In a somewhat related note, I've had friends confirm that you should never go through a gay man's phone unless you wanna see dick.

Dec 8, 2014#32

SpecialKO

GasBandit said:
Dude, I have porn on my computer that is 16 years old.

Er, the file creation date. Not the star.

Dec 8, 2014#33

PatrThom

Ravenpoe said:
I'm just gonna say... if you borrow my cell phone, you don't have to go far to find tits on it.

--Patrick

Dec 9, 2014#34

Charlie Don't Surf

It's not that weird to have no porn in the age of so much streaming imo

Dec 9, 2014#35

LordRendar

Yep. I have at the moment no porn at all on my pc. Not with all the sites that are available.

Dec 9, 2014#36

CrimsonSoul

I've never had a huge thing for porn. Erotic literature gets my motor running though

Dec 9, 2014#37

Charlie Don't Surf

CrimsonSoul said:
I've never had a huge thing for porn. Erotic literature gets my motor running though

That's porn, just a different kind

Dec 9, 2014#38

CrimsonSoul

I meant pictures /videos

Dec 9, 2014#39

GasBandit

Charlie Don't Surf said:
It's not that weird to have no porn in the age of so much streaming imo

LordRendar said:
Yep. I have at the moment no porn at all on my pc. Not with all the sites that are available.

True enough, but old habits die hard.

I mean, really, I download and save regular pictures and video, despite there being even more of that easily available online.

Dec 9, 2014#40

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
I download and save regular pictures and video, despite there being even more of that easily available online.

I will try to download and save anything that I think will get pulled, yanked, go dead, etc.
I'm still annoyed that I didn't download all of the God & Devil show before the links went dead, especially the bits that were sponsor-only.

--Patrick

Dec 9, 2014#41

Jax

From Sony being hacked to our porn collections in less than one page.
Par for the course at Halforums! :unibrow:

Dec 9, 2014#42

Gryfter

LOL ... Sony Hack reveals that Sony staffers really hate Adam Sandler movies.

http://pagesix.com/2014/12/05/sony-hack-fallout-not-even-staffers-like-adam-sandler/

Dec 10, 2014#43

Covar

GasBandit said:
The news coverage is driving me bonkers. They keep going on and on about how this is the first hack of its kind "on an American company."

Sony isn't an american company.

The hack was specifically Sony Pictures Entertainment which is an American subsidiary of Sony so it counts.

Dec 10, 2014#44

Celt Z

Gryfter said:
LOL ... Sony Hack reveals that Sony staffers really hate Adam Sandler movies.

http://pagesix.com/2014/12/05/sony-hack-fallout-not-even-staffers-like-adam-sandler/

So they're just like the rest of us?

Dec 10, 2014#45

jwhouk

This is all over the Seth Rogen film "The Interview".

North Korea.... SMH

Dec 10, 2014#46

GasBandit

jwhouk said:
This is all over the Seth Rogen film "The Interview".

North Korea.... SMH

The modern day real world Latveria.

Dec 10, 2014#47

AshburnerX

It's kind of sad that the son isn't more like the father... because apparently Kim Jung-il thought Team America: World Police was funny as hell. Then again, he loved movies so maybe he could look past the insults.

Dec 11, 2014#48

ThatNickGuy

AshburnerX said:
It's kind of sad that the son isn't more like the father... because apparently Kim Jung-il thought Team America: World Police was funny as hell. Then again, he loved movies so maybe he could look past the insults.

He was probably nerding out too much that he was a significant part of a American movie.

Dec 11, 2014#49

SpecialKO

For all we know, he probably cleared out the hallways of his palace once a week so he could walk from end to end singing the song.

Dec 11, 2014#50

Covar

I'm not sure I buy the North Korea angle. State sponsored hacking usually doesn't come with its own anarchist group name and ransom notes.

Dec 12, 2014#51

Sparhawk

Reports are now surfacing that Sony has halted all filming because of the payment system being hacked and corrupted. Pressure is also building within Sony proper to cut a deal with Marvel for the Spider-Man franchise being a part of the MCU and a 60/40 split Disney/Sony on the rights.

Dec 12, 2014#52

AshburnerX

Sparhawk said:
Reports are now surfacing that Sony has halted all filming because of the payment system being hacked and corrupted. Pressure is also building within Sony proper to cut a deal with Marvel for the Spider-Man franchise being a part of the MCU and a 60/40 split Disney/Sony on the rights.

Sony of Japan is not happy about this hack or the failure of the Spider-man movies. It's almost an even bet at the moment.

Dec 13, 2014#53

Sparhawk

AshburnerX said:
Sony of Japan is not happy about this hack or the failure of the Spider-man movies. It's almost an even bet at the moment.

The meetings are supposed to start on Monday, Dec 15, so rumors will really start in full by Monday night.

Dec 13, 2014#54

Cheesy1

Don't worry, if the meeting is at Sony HQ, the hackers will let us know ALL the details of it by the next morning!

Dec 22, 2014#55

filmfanatic

North Korea's entire internet connection has been blacked out today in a fashion consistent with a DDoS attack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/w...partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0

Dec 22, 2014#56

CrimsonSoul

filmfanatic said:
North Korea's entire internet connection has been blacked out today in a fashion consistent with a DDoS attack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/w...partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0

#lizardsquad LOL

Dec 22, 2014#57

Ravenpoe

filmfanatic said:
North Korea's entire internet connection has been blacked out today in a fashion consistent with a DDoS attack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/w...partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0

Yeah, but "North Korea's entire internet" is only like two computers. And one of those is broken.

Dec 22, 2014#58

ThatNickGuy

Ravenpoe said:
Yeah, but "North Korea's entire internet" is only like two computers. And one of those is broken.

And the other is an old Pac-Man game machine that Kim Jong Un keeps around that his whole staff keeps saying is top of the line.

Dec 22, 2014#59

jwhouk

I think a room full of sloths could probably shut down NK's internet.

Dec 23, 2014#60

filmfanatic

North Korea's internet is back up and Sony has announced that they will release The Interview in select theaters on Christmas day.

Man, this whole business has been an odd way to send out the year. Has anyone read the book Infinite Jest, because I'm getting vibes of this being somewhat like that.

Dec 23, 2014#61

Terrik

Just as planned.

Forums