Sony Pictures struggles as staff details, salaries and films leaked It's getting worse for Sony: the latest data dump from the raid that's brought the company to an IT standstill includes the personal details of staff. Documents leaked through BitTorrent show the names, home addresses, salaries (and bonuses), and social security numbers of thousands of staff, including executives. Sony …
As an aside, I just learned, courtesy of the Urban Dictionary, that an "Obamalamadingdong" is actually a description for someone who goes round ringing doorbells and promoting Obama.
The word has a very onomatopoeiac ring to it......
[Far better than the old "Ding Dong Avon calling" of yore]
No idea why so down-voted. I agree!
The Norks had nothing to do with this.Seriously, it was one bit of speculation from one unnamed source, and suddenly everyone's sure they massively upped their game and changed how they operate? I don't think so.
The scale is breath-taking. This is people with hardware access walking out with hard drives, having spent a while getting into the right positions. It's not someone working out of North Korea. It's 38 million+ files, and 11+ terabytes. That's probably half the storage in Pyongyang.
Right idea, but wrong on the exit strategy. It should be:
"Please put away your trays, and return your seats to the upright position. Buckle your seat belts and be prepared to pull the ejector lever in the event of air craft disintegration. Once again, thank you for flying Pwned Airlines."
They may as well be different companies
SCE is basically proper Sony, the hardware company a lot of people still like.
SP is basically a US film producer they bought (Columbia?).
As to PS4 vs XB1 the winners are the gamers. The manufacturers actually LIKE each other.
firstly, what's this got to do with PSN?
secondly, PS4 is destroying the Xbone 4:1 in sales.
thirdly, don't be sure sure hacks aren't happening closer to home.
Infact, I still have an open question with The Register, about why my details that were only used here, soon to have been either taken or sold to 3rd parties.
Perhaps The Register were too busy writing this gutter-press tripe, and not paying attention to who was on THEIR network...
> secondly, PS4 is destroying the Xbone 4:1 in sales.
It has to be said tho: Microsoft have no one but themselves to blame for their failure. I mean, come on! Launch the Xbone and Xbox Live Gold services in Malaysia and other third world countries already. Singapore has full official support while in Malaysia you only get shady parallel imported devices from Singapore that has limited to zero functionality outside of playing games from optical media, and even then you can't even play online. In the meantime Sony is laughing all the way to the bank with my money. And I will happily support them because their services are available in Malaysia, Microsoft's aren't.
Sorry - I call bullshit. I would suggest that no company with more than 100[1] employees could manage without at least one PC doing something for them. And that's in the UK. I have no idea how complex Japanese commercial bureaucracy is, but I doubt it is that much different to the UK.
Given the fact that data is going to continue to be generated (whether inside the IT system, or on paper) at a rate that will exceed the ability to input it (unless Sony were spectacularly inefficient in terms of staff usage), I suspect that in years to come, November/December 2014 will never be available in their MI systems - certainly not to any great detail.
[1]In fact 10 employees might be a push.
"lots of huge companies in the past used to run ok."
Yeah, but that was in the days when a drawing office had 100's of guys at drawing boards with all the physical tools of the trade instead of 10 guys with a big PC each and two or three screens. Ditto for the "typing pool". Going manual in most offices isn't practical because the skills, equipment and most importantly, the larges numbers of warm bodies is no longer there.
"A lot of the KGB runs on pen, paper and typewriters,"
In the words of the venerable Sir Shaun of Ryder :-
"You're twistin' my melon man, you know you talk so hip man"
Did you mean "runs on" in the same sense that the Black Panthers, Bow Street Runners and Lord Kitchener also "run on" such things?
little tidbit...I actually worked on the SCEE breach a couple of years back as we were contracted to do the forensics and act as Expert Witness... Their counsel managed to reduce all the fines by half (from £500k to £250k) by successfully arguing (using our evidence and testimony) that they weren't completely and willfully negligent. Anyway, the interesting part, they were so hell bent on proving their innocence they ignored EVERYONE'S advice to say sorry, fix up, pay the £500k fine and promise to get better. Instead they chose to fight it, get some VERY expensive solicitors involved, dragged it out for months, through the media daily, and still got stung for £250k and forced to admit guilt. I have zero doubt in my mind their bill from their legal firm who contracted us was way in excess of what they saved...lol.
But the point is, it was proven in court, Sony wasn't negligent in the PSN hack... It was never about the money, it was about proving that in a court of law, showing facts, rather than the internet hearsay that most people here still believe to be true (like that creditcard details were stolen, which if you truly were involved, you will know to be untrue)
Just like much of the acidic hate here, (Rootkit, PSN hack). The facts are lost an a massive pot of untuths and myths, with plebs making idiots of themselves daily, pushing "facts" about somehting that read about on the intenet.
Yes, I know this could be a disaster for many people working there (and their families), but somehow I can't help but think ``What goes around comes around''.
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