Sony has been brought to its knees by a devastating series of hacks that has seen a multitude of its movies, scripts, medical records of its employees, contract negotiations and more leaked online.
The hacking took place in the company’s Sony Pictures division, and though initial reports indicated that the outlook was bleak for Sony, it is now being claimed that it is the worst corporate hack in human history as 100 terabytes have reportedly been stolen by the hackers.
Thus far only 40GB of confidential files have surfaced online, which BuzzFeed has sifted through, which allegedly contain 6,800 spreadsheets containing the salaries of Sony employees worldwide, along with the Social Security numbers of 3,500 US staff and an unreleased script for a pilot penned by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.
Fury was one of the Sony films leaked by the hackers.
The 40GB data is now easily accessible online due to the hackers, who are branding themselves the ‘Guardians of Peace.’ It also contains the bank and credit card information of a number of employees, kept inside a Word document that is simply titled ‘Passwords.’ Considering that Sony has faced similar issues with hackers before, most notably when its PlayStation Network was taken offline for three weeks, this is exactly the kind of thing that will prove disastrous to their public image, not to mention the morale of their employees.
Sony has yet to release an official statement in regards to the extent of the attacks, but the 40GB of data that has surfaced online contains enough confidential data for the company to be sent into panic mode. If the hackers are telling the truth and they do have 100TB of data at their disposal, then their situation will soon get a whole lot worse.
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