GOP, a hackersgroepering which claims to be responsible for the massive hack at Sony Pictures, has a torrent of 27GB online put in which business documents would have been included. Meanwhile, denies North Korea its involvement in the attack.
The hackers had already know that they have dozens of terabytes of data from Sony Pictures could have been stolen, and this step-by-step online went. That seems to be the publication of a torrent file on multiple websites to have happened. The torrent contains 27GB of compressed data, including presumably corporate documents. The website Fusion claims from the leaked data to a spreadsheet to have opened in which salary details of Sony Pictures staff is included.
By now it is also known that the FBI is involved in research into the extensive weiter. Would rather Sony all the American security firm FireEye have issued the case against the light to keep.
The FBI warned U.s. companies that they, too, can be affected by the suspected malware used by the hackers seems to have been used, reports Reuters. The malware overwrites all data on the hard drive of the victims, including the master boot record. As a result, the hard drives will be unusable, unless they have manually be restored.
Some of the fingers are pointing to North Korea as a possible culprit for the hack. According to The Wall Street Journal, software is found previously by North Korean hackers has been used to banks and media companies in South Korea to fall. Opposite the BBC refuses a spokesman of the regime of Kim Jong-un to deny that the country is involved in the attack. He responded with the text ‘wait and see’. North Korea agitated earlier against the Sony movie The Interview. In this comedy would be the regime of Kim Jong-un mocked. North Korea says the film can be seen as an ‘act of war’.
Monday appeared screeners of several Sony movies that are still in the cinema run online. Screeners are versions of movies to reviewers, are sent out. Has the leaking of movies including Fury and Annie, have something to do with the hack, but for sure not in the least.