An alleged 27GB Sony Pictures data dump. 65 PlayStation web servers. One baffling mystery

On a side note....

It's also being reported that something the personal data (names, addresses, SSN's, etc.) of some 8000 past and present employees were swiped. Whoever did it apparently does now own Sony and it's employees.

This was a Class Hack…

Will Sony come around to the way of thinking of some small business owners.... That always being connected in today's tech world is a bloody double-edged sword…?

Troll

I like Sony as a manufacturer, mostly. I am not a big consumer of electronics, but I am very very picky. Of the products I have owned or been exposed to via friends or family that I think are made with thought and quality, all are Sony. It really feels like their engineers never brute force themselves around a problem, and while powerful inside their design try hard to tone it down.

Anyway, when it comes to security Sony feels like a troll. Nearly literally, the troll from some fantasy world hired to keep folks out or in. Big, brutish, can crush you with it's finger, but easily fooled and can, in an attempt to catch you, level to the ground whatever it is you were not allowed to enter. Also its literacy on the law is quite low on the count that its literacy is quite low and that it does not really see the benefit in obeying any.

On this count I try my hardest to find any product that isn't Sony when I need something new.

So... If I understand correctly...

Sony not only got caught with its pants down, its arse cheeks were suitably spread as well?

FTFY

"At this point all the EC2 seeders are gone, and my best guess is that SCE were in fact owned by GOP."

Which bittorrent client are the pictures from?

Icons are very familiar to me and look like someone is using KDE, but then I'm not familiar with any other DE but Windows.

Transmission for Mac.

Legal

If the content (sony movies) was downloaded from sony's servers, would it then become a legal action ?

What goes around...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

Sweet, sweet karma.

or because it could mean an inside job!

Insider Attacks are real.

Wait a minute

Wait a sec, I thought that it was Sony Pictures that got hacked? Surely the Playstation servers are controlled by Sony Computer Entertainment, which is supposed to be a separate entity?

Have Sony been penetrated twice? (And I'm sure el Reg can make a good headline out of that one ;)

Not Honeypots

They are Poisonpots, serving up corrupted torrents.

Thank you for this article.

I've now added a custom block list with the 74. addresses to my peerblock list. Thanks.