This article isn't great. The data is from Sony. I guess if fusion is a news site they need to 'confirm'. But it's impossible for the data to be anything else. I've never seen one faked spread sheet, let alone millions.
The leaked data so far is in a 35 gig multipart rar. The list of files only(No directories or metadata) is 400meg -> 1 gig uncompressed. Both are on PB.
The NK angle seems to be there was Korean comments in the malware. But there's also a theory it was insiders angry about the restructure.
The hackers were using the Sony PlayStation network to seed these latest torrents. IE they still had some control days later.
This sort of thing is pretty hard to stop. Security kills productivity, you won't be rewarded for lowing output with no proof you didn't anything useful, that's the nature of the issue.
Limits on stolen data in the old days was more about getting it out, not security. With the huge pipes in and out these days this will become more common. The only thing stopping people doing this everywhere currently is they can't be bothered.
[edit] This is also a good lesson on why you should never put anything in writing you don't want everyone to know.
Could have stopped there. This is just a list of a couple of key points in the data with pretty banal reactions. And if it's the most interesting parts of the data then it's not all that exciting.
Just feels like someone wanted to strike while the iron was hot.
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This article isn't great. The data is from Sony. I guess if fusion is a news site they need to 'confirm'. But it's impossible for the data to be anything else. I've never seen one faked spread sheet, let alone millions.
The leaked data so far is in a 35 gig multipart rar. The list of files only(No directories or metadata) is 400meg -> 1 gig uncompressed. Both are on PB.
The NK angle seems to be there was Korean comments in the malware. But there's also a theory it was insiders angry about the restructure.
The hackers were using the Sony PlayStation network to seed these latest torrents. IE they still had some control days later.
This sort of thing is pretty hard to stop. Security kills productivity, you won't be rewarded for lowing output with no proof you didn't anything useful, that's the nature of the issue.
Limits on stolen data in the old days was more about getting it out, not security. With the huge pipes in and out these days this will become more common. The only thing stopping people doing this everywhere currently is they can't be bothered.
[edit] This is also a good lesson on why you should never put anything in writing you don't want everyone to know.
Could have stopped there. This is just a list of a couple of key points in the data with pretty banal reactions. And if it's the most interesting parts of the data then it's not all that exciting.
Just feels like someone wanted to strike while the iron was hot.