Below is a lesson on no matter how big you are it could happen to you article is courtesy of the register
\nSony Pictures is investigating a breach that has seen hackers supposedly steal reams of internal data and splash defacements across staff computers. The company is now in lock-down as it wrestles with the problem.
\nThe beleaguered company, writes <i><a href=”http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/biz\/news\/sony-targeted-by-apparent-hack-attack-to-corporate-systems-1201363734\/” target=”_blank”>Variety<\/a><\/i>, has requested staff disconnect their computers and personal devices from the Sony network and shut down virtual private networks.<div><div id=”article-mpu-container”><div id=”ad-mu1-spot”><div id=”ad-mu1-spot_ad_container”>Cracking group Guardians of Peace claimed responsibility for a <a href=”http:\/\/imgur.com\/qXNgFVz” target=”_blank”>defacement<\/a> appearing on staff machines that it stole internal corporate data. The group says it will leak more details to the public web depending on what Sony ‘decided’ in what appeared to be a reference to demands quietly sent to the company earlier.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Users have overloaded servers hosting the alleged 200Mb-plus breach caches grinding many to a crawl.<div><a href=”http:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2014\/11\/24\/gop.jpg” rel=”noreferrer”><img src=”http:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2014\/11\/24\/gop.jpg” alt=”Guardians of Peace” width=”535″ height=”313″ \/><\/a>The alleged Guardians of Peace message.
\n<\/div>The group also hacked dozens of Twitter accounts linked to movies such as Stomp The Yard, Soul Surfer, and Starship Troopers.
\nNews broke after a user claiming to be a former Sony staffer <a href=”http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/hacking\/comments\/2n9zhv\/i_used_to_work_for_sony_pictures_my_friend_still\/” target=”_blank”>posted allegations<\/a> of the breach, including the defacement picture on Reddit. The account was a year ago linked to posts claiming to be a Sony employee and has since been deleted.
\nSony spokeswoman Jean Guerin said it was “investigating an IT matter” but could not confirm the hack.<blockquote>”Hacked By #GOP Warning: We’ve already warned you, and this is just a beginning. We continue till our request be met. We’ve obtained all your internal data, including your secrets and top secrets. If you don’t obey us, we’ll release data shown below to the world. Determine what will you do till November the 24th, 11:00 PM (GMT).<\/blockquote>Users have searched the alleged Sony data caches dumped online and reportedly found private PuTTY keys, passwords for Oracle and SQL databases, source code and production schedules and hardware inventory lists.
\nIncluded files were named ‘Jana’s passwords.xls’, ‘Extranet Oracle & SQL passwords 4.3.06.txt’, and ‘ACCOUNTS WITHOUT PASSWORDS.xls’.
\nAt least 20 alleged PuTTY keys were discovered by inquisitive users downloading the released data with one named AkamaiPrivateKey.ppk.
\nAn alleged group of document file names was <a href=”http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/0imAQby” target=”_blank”>published online<\/a> a user who downloaded some of the data caches.
\n<i>The Reg<\/i> will update this story as more details become available and once the trove downloads. \u00ae
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