Sony pictures was breached and several movies were leaked. Movies like Fury, Annie, etc, have been found on torrent download sites.
It’s believed to be tied to North Korea and a Sony movie making fun of, and the assassination of, the N.K. dictator. In order to wipe the tracks of the hack, wiper malware (malicious software) was placed on the computers used in the hack to wipe the systems and erase hacker tracks, hindering investigations.
Malicious software that affected Sony will be the first of many, as predicted by the FBI.
Should you find mbr_remote_wiper on your systems, you should contact federal agents.
Due to the Sony Pictures hack, 47,000 Social Security numbers, including Sylvester Stallone’s have been copied/stolen.
Other data copied/stolen and leaked was top executives pay charts,
and a listing of 30,000 employees of Deloitte. An HR person employed by Sony Pictures who used to work at Deloitte had some of Deloitte’s files saved on a computer.
In the initial hack last week, an image of a skeleton appeared on company computers with a message that said, “Hacked by #GOP,” with the group behind it calling itself “Guardians of Peace”.
One of the worst findings was that Sony kept thousands of passwords in a folder called “Password”.