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A sysadmin could have collected this data over a long period of time and dumped it on some lulz h4xors who are having the time of their life sizing it up in inc

by xorcist 12y ago

A sysadmin could have collected this data over a long period of time and dumped it on some lulz h4xors who are having the time of their life sizing it up in increments and writing trollish press releases. There's really no need for anyone to have get paid in this scenario. I'm not saying it isn't possible, just that it isn't necessary to explain what happened. The disgruntled employee is really the "husband did it" in murder investigations. It's so common you have to investigate it by routine every time. They probably don't have enough audit data to track the leaker, or they would already have done it.

rilita 12y ago
I have known my fair share of sysadmins; none of them are capable of writing decently complex malware. Have you seen the way the releases are organized?
- yuncun 12y ago
  No, are they organized well?
  - rilita 12y ago
    They are split up into categorical sections of what data was released and/or each release serves a purpose ( a pst mail dump ) They are all compressed using rar files. Rar releases are trademark of scene releases. This was done by professional hackers who have been around long enough to stick to using rars... I don't advocate downloading the releases so I can't really say much about the contents of the files themselves, only regarding the directory structure, since the file listings of some of the releases were publicly released online by infosec pros.
- xorcist 12y ago
  I can assure you that there are quite a few who are, and even moonlights the scene. That doesn't necessarily have to be the case here however, the h4xors in question could just as easily have written the malware too.
jn1234 12y ago
They have the malware and the malware basically wrecked all of Sony's Entertainment. The reason why everyone keeps saying it was a disgruntled employee was because unless someone spent a lot of time gathering information on Sony's IT infrastructure, unless you didn't in which case you would need intimate knowledge of the infrastructure. The timeline for North Korea doing this or hiring someone to do this is off. They would've had only 3 months to put together the project.

by xorcist 12y ago

rilita 12y ago

I have known my fair share of sysadmins; none of them are capable of writing decently complex malware. Have you seen the way the releases are organized?

yuncun 12y ago
No, are they organized well?
- rilita 12y ago
  They are split up into categorical sections of what data was released and/or each release serves a purpose ( a pst mail dump ) They are all compressed using rar files. Rar releases are trademark of scene releases. This was done by professional hackers who have been around long enough to stick to using rars... I don't advocate downloading the releases so I can't really say much about the contents of the files themselves, only regarding the directory structure, since the file listings of some of the releases were publicly released online by infosec pros.
xorcist 12y ago
I can assure you that there are quite a few who are, and even moonlights the scene. That doesn't necessarily have to be the case here however, the h4xors in question could just as easily have written the malware too.

jn1234 12y ago

They have the malware and the malware basically wrecked all of Sony's Entertainment. The reason why everyone keeps saying it was a disgruntled employee was because unless someone spent a lot of time gathering information on Sony's IT infrastructure, unless you didn't in which case you would need intimate knowledge of the infrastructure. The timeline for North Korea doing this or hiring someone to do this is off. They would've had only 3 months to put together the project.