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Sony Corp being held hostage by hackers

SonySony employees were forced to shut down their computers and work ground to a halt. Eventually, many of them were sent home. This didn’t just impact Sony’s Culver City, California offices either.
 
Sony Pictures operations around the globe were taken offline, but not before the hackers made off with  huge haul of internal documents.
 
The hackers had already leaked a large ZIP file containing two massive lists detailing the extent of the document releases.
 
Most of what’s inside appears to be from the Sony Pictures finance department, including the stuff of IT guy nightmares: Excel sheets and ZIP files that appear to be full of passwords.
 
There’s even a text file that helpfully lists the last 10 recently used passwords for something at Sony.
 
Read the full story at Geek.com

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