Apparently, Sony has fallen victim to a group of hackers. The stolen data is now for sale on the dark web. Here's everything we know.
Data breaches are nothing new in the gaming industry. Every year several companies get hacked or fall victim to ransomware attacks. Usually the companies are then blackmailed or the data is sold or even just made public. Now, as it seems, Sony has fallen victim to yet another data breach. A group called Ransomed.vc seems to have been able to hack Sony and steal data from all their systems.
Sony's Data For Sale
As first reported by Cyber Security Connect, the group known as Ransomed.vc have claimed to have compromised all of Sony's systems. In there post, they say:
We have successfully compromissed [sic] all of sony systems. We wont ransom them! we will
The post also includes some proof-of-hack data which seems to be an internal PowerPoint, a number of Java files and screenshots of an internal log-in page. The file tree of the entire leak has less than 6000 files, which seems a bit small for a hack that compromised "all of sony systems". We don't exactly know what data has been stolen so far, but the post also shows the date "September 28", which is presumably the date when Ransomed.vc will publish all data if they can't sell it.
So far, there hasn't been an official statement by Sony confirming or negating the data breach and we don't know which data exactly has been compromised. If the hack turns out to be real and any substantial data has been sold or published by Ransomed.vc, we will keep you up to date.