Sony Pictures officially commented on hacking of its servers by hackers

As you probably already heard, on November 24, the servers of the Sony Pictures movie company, owned by the Japanese electronic giant, were hacked by unknown hackers. For the first time the official representatives of the studio commented on what had happened in their address to the press.

Recall that hackers broke through the protection system of one of the servers Sony Pictures and got access to almost all the inside information of the studio. In total, they obtained access to information about 47,000 employees of the company, including their social insurance data, salary information and many other confidential data. Even movie stars, including such celebrities as Angelina Jolie and Sylvester Stalonna, got hit even as scammers of their passports, copies of contracts, personal portfolios and income data got into the hands of the perpetrators.

Among other things, hackers managed to steal digital copies of four new movies Sony Pictures ("Rage", "Annie", "William Turner" and "Still Alice"), two of which have not even been released and were intended to, To show them to the members of the evaluation commission. Also, the entire internal network of the studio was completely disabled, which is why the work of Sony Pictures literally stopped for several days.

Hackers also got all the internal mail correspondence between the studio employees, logins and passwords to numerous working accounts on the Twitter network and much, much more. The amount of stolen information is already estimated in terabytes of data. After turning on their working computers, Sony Pictures employees saw a message from the monitors on the screens of the intruders from the Guardians of Peace hacker group: "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 such a bad hacker did this man - no one knows.

Initially, North Korea was suspected of being suspected, which may have tried to take revenge on Sony Pictures for the release of the movie "The Interview", in which the characters of James Franco and Seth Rogen are to kill the leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un. But the authorities of the DPRK 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 "cybersled" criminals left on the servers, Kevin Mandia, a computer security specialist from Mandiant, who was charged with investigating a hacker attack, sent his first conclusions to the Sony Pictures management. 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 about this. This attack is unprecedented in nature. Malicious programs could not be detected using standard antivirus software. They were destructive and unique enough that we had to transfer the data to the FBI so that they could warn other industry giants about possible attacks and their servers too. The scale of this attack differs from all that we have seen so far. For the first time hackers simultaneously tried to destroy someone else's property, and also to publish in the open access a huge amount of confidential data. Analogues to such attacks simply do not exist. We are absolutely sure that this is a carefully planned operation, which was prepared by an organized group of high-class specialists. Against such an attack, no one, even a very well-protected large company, could survive. At the moment, our investigation continues, and we constantly find new clues about 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 danger from the harmful actions of hackers. Over the past year, the activity of cybercriminals has increased dramatically, and several dozens of large organizations have been hit. None of the security experts knows if the current situation will change for the better in the coming years. But we all definitely need to be more careful during our time in the global network.

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