Without access to their computers, they feared that their computer files could be lost.Ībby Adams, who works at a coffee shop on the Sony lot in Culver City, said there were long lines of employees who couldn’t work because of the hack.
The employee said several people she knew saw the skeleton #GOP hack image pop up on their screens before the system went dark. One Sony employee, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the situation, said the hack has disrupted everyone’s workflow. “Ransom-ware,” like that appearing on Sony employees’ computers, is installed. He said similar attacks have unfolded in this way: A hacker gains access to login information for an IT administrator, then uses those credentials to sniff around the network. “Sony lost control of their environment.” “It’s obvious from the scope of what’s been done that the intruders owned the entire environment,” Lieberman said. Banks and retailers are popular targets because of the access they have to consumer financial information.Ī recent report from the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated that more than 117,000 cyberattacks hit businesses each day, but few are on the scale of the blow dealt to Sony, said Philip Lieberman, president of security management program maker Lieberman Software. Millions of customers have seen their information stolen in other recent attacks on companies including Home Depot and JPMorgan Chase & Co. last year had to face the Black Friday theft of a huge swath of customer information, including some 40 million credit card numbers. The Sony film unit is only the latest company to get hit.
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