Today Morning was worst day for Sony pictures and hackers have
hacked into the one of the Sony Server and makes all its computer useless (offline). The news of the hack hit internet via a
reddit post where a reddit users claiming
all computers at the company were offline due to a hack.
According to the Reddit post, an image appeared on the employee's computer titled reading "
Hacked by #GOP". On the image hackers have wrote a message demanding their request to complete. On the message over the image hackers have also given a link of the ZIP file.
The zip file contains some of the sensitive and private list of the files and name belongs to the financial data, along with some of the login credential of few servers. Additionally some of the twitter accounts belongs to Sony were reportedly compromised and tweeted about the following hack. However, currently Sony have regained all these accounts, but there is still to wait for the reports on the control over the compromised computers and servers.
On the message cyber hackers were demanding for something but demands themselves are still unclear. Hackers have warned on the message that if there demand were not met then they will release all the sensitive data at 6PM Eastern Time.
According to reports, the hack has been confirmed and anonymous source says “a single server was compromised and the attack was spread from there.”
Reports source also stats that, Sony employees have been warned not to connect to the company’s corporate network or to check email. They also added that “Sony’s information-technology departments have instructed employees to turn off their computers as well as disable Wi-Fi on all mobile devices”.
At the mean time Sony have not comment on the security breach but we are still waiting for the time given by the hacker at which they warned to release full records. Other then this What is the demand of the hackers? is also hidden.
