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I am not a sysadmin or network security guy, so I have to ask: how could hackers siphon as much as 100 terabytes of data from Sony's network without being notic

I am not a sysadmin or network security guy, so I have to ask: how could hackers siphon as much as 100 terabytes of data from Sony's network without being noticed? Shouldn't they have indictors to see their bandwidth was running dry? If so, did the GOP do it slowly to avoid drawing attention?

spacemanmatt 12y ago
For a network the size of Sony's, it seems like that volume should be relatively easy to smuggle out. Maybe not all at once, right?
- gizzlon 12y ago
  If my math is right, it would take ~120 days at 10 MB / second.
gizzlon 12y ago
Although it's possible to monitor bandwidth use pretty closely, none of the companies I've worked for ever did that unless we where having problems. All the "hackers" have to do is copy the date in a matter that does not cause obvious problems. For example, as you said, do it slowly, or do it at night when "nobody's" using the network anyway.
JonnieCache 12y ago
As a movie studio I imagine their infrastructure is used to moving obscenely large archives around as a matter of course.
shthed 12y ago
Served from Sony's EC2 instances: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/03/strange_things_afoot_with_great_sony_pictures_torrent_data_leak/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/03/strange_things_afoot...