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More Follow-Up to Sony Hack

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 06 2014, @11:42PM   
from the raising-the-stakes dept.

anubi writes:

PC World is reporting that families of Sony employees are now being threatened, or at least being subjected to implied threats.

Hackers said to threaten Sony employees

The hack against Sony Pictures appeared to enter new territory on Friday when employees reportedly received messages threatening them and their families.

The message, reported by Variety, warned that “not only you but your family will be in danger.”

Sony’s computer system was attacked in late November and gigabytes of data, including unreleased movies, were stolen and leaked online. Embarrassing hacks have hit other companies in recent years, but threatening employees is highly unusual and will put extra pressure on law enforcement to find those responsible.

The message purports to be from the Guardians of Peace, the group that has claimed responsibility for the Sony hack. It’s written in patchy English and opens with further threats against Sony.

“Removing Sony Pictures on earth is a very tiny work for our group which is a worldwide organization. And what we have done so far is only a small part of our further plan,” the message reads in part, according to Variety, which says it obtained a copy.

It then turns to Sony employees.

“Many things beyond imagination will happen at many places of the world. ... Please sign your name to object the false [sic] of the company at the email address below if you dont want to suffer damage. If you dont, not only you but your family will be in danger,” the message reads.

This incident is precisely why I am so worked up about trustworthy computing and leery of having others aggregating personal information on me. Its not that I am trying to hide anything I am doing, but leaving all my personal information laying around is just an invite for someone to come in and make a mess in my life.

• Re:anonymous resistance Re:anonymous resistance (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday December 07 2014, @07:01AM

  by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Sunday December 07 2014, @07:01AM (#123412) Homepage

  And we don't even necessarily know what was actually signed. What SN choses to render need not be identical (e.g. filtering, the escaping of entities, or recoding between character sets or encodings)

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• Re:anonymous resistance (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @07:56AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07 2014, @07:56AM (#123423)

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  It works here when I just copy and paste the text from the Web browser into a gpg agent. You are right about a possibility of a false negative though, depending on the Web client.

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