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140,000 employees of Sony corporate network shut down Monday November 24, 2014 Sony Cyber Hack Shuts Down Network, Leaks Unreleased Movies Sony was hit by hackers on Nov. 24, resulting in a company wide computer shutdown and the leak of corporate information, including the multimillion-dollar pre-bonus salaries of executives and the Social Security numbers of rank-and-file employees. The corporate network was shut down, disabling e-mail and access to corporate data, and several movies, some yet to be released, were leaked for downloading. North Korea and Iran were named by analysts as a likely culprit as similarities to attacks on South Korea were uncovered. Sony was still struggling to recover 8 days later. NewYork Times
the malware was written in Korean and was “destructive” in nature. It commands a computer to sleep for two hours, after which the computer is shut down, rebooted and directed to start wiping all of its files,
Deloitte, the consulting and auditing firm, was victimized on Wednesday after the hackers that hit Sony published confidential Deloitte data on Pastebin, an anonymous posting website. The data included salary information for more than 30,000 of its employees.
It was not clear whether the data was on Sony’s computer networks because of its work with Deloitte — the entertainment company has hired Deloitte in the past — or whether it was carried over by a former Deloitte employee...irm has aggressively marketed its digital threat intelligence services
did not just steal data, they also defaced Sony’s websites with ominous images of red skeletons and warnings and filled the company’s Twitter feeds with rants...
clearly had insider information into the company’s system, such as the names of the company’s internal directories and passwords
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77 million accounts stolen April 17, 2011 PlayStation Network outage Wikipedia The PlayStation Network outage was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were stolen and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from playing online through the service.[1][2][3][4] The attack occurred between April 17 and April 19, 2011,[1] forcing Sony to turn off the PlayStation Network on April 20. On May 4 Sony confirmed that personally identifiable information from each of the 77 million accounts appeared to have been stolen.[5] The outage lasted 24 days.[6]
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Report Says Cyberattacks Originated Inside Iran New York Times
By NICOLE PERLROTHDEC. 2, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO — Iranian hackers were identified in a report released Tuesday as the source of coordinated attacks against more than 50 targets in 16 countries, many of them corporate and go.. Cylance, a security firm based in Irvine, Calif.,..they could take over, manipulate or easily destroy data on those machines... word cleaver frequently appeared in the attackers’ malicious code. Crowdstrike tracking the same group of Iranian hackers for the past nine months under a different alias, “Cutting Kitten” The hackers used a set of tools that can spy on and potentially shut down critical control systems and computer networks, aiming them at targets in the United States, Canada, Israel, India, Qatar, Kuwait, Mexico, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, France, England, China and South Korea
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Sony Pictures struggles to recover eight days after cyber attack
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