The Ransomed.vc group announces that it has penetrated all of Sony’s computer systems and collected more than 6,000 files belonging to the giant.
Less than a week after the Xbox megaleaks that revealed the company’s plans for the next few years, Sony could be in line to pay the price. This time it was not a simple error in publishing evidence of a trial online, but a computer attack by the Ransomed.vc group.
It is CyberSecurity Connect that highlights this group of hackers who believe they managed to penetrate Sony’s networks and steal about 6,000 documents from the company.
Player data?
Older PlayStation gamers will no doubt remember the big hack of 2011. At that time, Sony revealed the private data, particularly bank card details, of the 77 million PlayStation Network accounts. The attack resulted in the company having to close the PlayStation 3’s online mode for several weeks. In particular, to apologize, the company offered its customers a selection of games.
This time the breach would come from the Ransomed.vc group, which claims to have stolen thousands of internal Sony files. The group promises to have penetrated “the entirety” of Sony systems to extract logs, Java resources and even HTML files. Sony refused to give in to the group’s ransom and is now offering to resell this data on the dark web. That’s why we think we understand this the group would not have gotten its hands on the players’ data, but rather on internal and potentially confidential Sony files.
Is the hack real and important?
At the moment, Sony has not made any announcement that could confirm an intervention in its systems. However, we must remember that in 2011 it took some time for the company to realize the extent of the damage.
We also wonder what files are affected by this alleged theft. If the hackers are telling the truth, they do not appear to have gotten their hands on important documents such as the group’s strategy for the coming years. Rather, we understand that they stole technical documents such as the details of an internal Sony benchmark.
From today’s perspective, there is no reason to panic, but rather to be vigilant.