On the extreme end, maybe this will move towards A Taste of Armageddon.

So the only benefit to committing these crimes is to point out that Sony doesn't think highly of some celebrities? Or are you thinking there is a specific leak that will happen soon that will bring down Sony Pictures?carey wrote:No. I think it's a former / disgruntled employee. I don't think Sony wanted this to happen.
There was a lot more to the Sony hack than leaking emails. They destroyed the company's IT infrastructure. It was pretty malicious.Indy wrote:So the only benefit to committing these crimes is to point out that Sony doesn't think highly of some celebrities? Or are you thinking there is a specific leak that will happen soon that will bring down Sony Pictures?carey wrote:No. I think it's a former / disgruntled employee. I don't think Sony wanted this to happen.
What’s remarkable is the sheer destruction leveled at Sony and its employees. For perhaps the first time, a major American company really did suffer a worst-case cyberassault scenario.
While tabloid rags are salivating over the juicy Hollywood gossip and Aaron Sorkin is writing impassioned polemics against revealing stolen information, these hackers, whoever they are, genuinely do deserve to be termed cyberterrorists. Many attacks are for financial gain or revelation of valuable or salacious information. The latter is a factor here, but the overriding aim seems to have been to damage Sony Pictures and its employees to the point at which they could barely even function. To my knowledge, there has never before been a cyberattack of this scale. The Guardians of Peace didn’t just steal 100 TB (an ungodly amount) of sensitive data, they also used “wiper malware” to more or less destroy Sony’s internal systems, leaving its entire infrastructure crippled.
There is news today that that is exactly what happened.carey wrote:No. I think it's a former / disgruntled employee. I don't think Sony wanted this to happen.