Before the entire system went dark, the malware wiped out half of Sony’s global digital network. If you don’t obey us, we’ll release data.” It read like the opening of a bad script for a cyber-thriller.īut for Sony, the horror movie was just the beginning. We’ve obtained all your Internal data Including your secrets and top secrets.
Below was a message that read, in not very good English, “We’ve already warned you, and this is just a beginning. Sony employees who logged on to their desktops early on Monday morning, November 24, 2014, were greeted with the sound of digital gunfire and the image of an ominous red skeleton under the title “Hacked By #GOP,” which stood not for the Grand Old Party, but for a shadowy organization called Guardians of Peace.
