The Ransomed.vc hacking group claimed yesterday that they successfully breached Sony's servers. They stated they now have a substantial trove of sensitive information covering every aspect of the Japanese corporation's operations.
Nevertheless, several malicious groups are asserting responsibility for this major data breach, further complicating matters. Moreover, many have even disseminated contradictory data to add to the confusion. Presently, Sony is conducting an investigation into the incident.
“We are currently investigating the situation, and we have no further comment at this time,” Sony released.
According to Ransomed.vc's statement, it appears that Sony may have rejected the group's ransom request. They have stated that if no buyer comes forward, the data will be made public on September 28.
As per the multiple sources, the group is demanding $2.5 million (£1.97 million) for the data.
What has been compromised?
Even though the group asserts they have breached "all of" Sony's systems, the evidence supporting this claim is somewhat lacking and does not entirely align with their statements.
However, a portion of the purported evidence for the hack is a file system tree displaying the extracted data. This tree seems to contain less than 6,000 files, with a significant number of them apparently in Japanese.
“We have successfully compromised [sic] all of sony systems. We won’t ransom them! We will sell the data. Due to Sony not wanting to pay. DATA IS FOR SALE,” Ransomed.vc said on its website.
In the information the group released, there were various files, which they say came from Ransomed.vc. This is a major area of disagreement about whether this is really where the data came from in the supposed hack.
SonarQube
Sony's
certificates
Creators
Cloud
A device emulator for license generation
Qasop security
Incident response policies, and other materials.
Ransomed.vc shared pictures of a Sony login screen and a PowerPoint presentation. Right now, we're not sure exactly how much information they might have gotten hold of, but BleepingComputer estimates it could be around 260GB in total.
Back in 2014, Sony suffered its most notorious hack. It was reported that a team of North Korean hackers targeted Sony Pictures in response to the movie "The Interview."
The breach resulted in the exposure of Sony's upcoming film projects and the personal details of their employees. This breach involved a staggering 100 terabytes of data.
