Sony Pictures Hack - A Treasure Trove of Information

[6souls]

The subject has been touched lightly in the Hacking thread and in Bentertainment, but there is so much more that hasn't been posted. Buzzfeed, for example, has found an pilot script for a new Breaking Bad spin-off. The financial information for all employees (including actors, actresses, directors, etc) have been exposed, including social security numbers. Nothing was encrypted or password protected. It shows that this branch of Sony took no action after their video game branch was hacked.

Sony has since confirmed that the hack is real and is providing identity protection services, but the fallout from this is expected to cost them more than what they could make from future releases.

It is now apparent that a large amount of confidential Sony Pictures Entertainment data has been stolen by the cyber attackers, including personnel information and business documents. This is the result of a brazen attack on our company, our employees and our business partners. This theft of Sony materials and the release of employee and other information are malicious criminal acts, and we are working closely with law enforcement.

The privacy and security of our employees are of real concern to us, and we are deeply saddened at this concerted effort to do damage to our company, undermine our morale, and discourage us. We are enormously proud of the resilience you have all shown in the face of this attack. The company is as busy as ever, and our business continues to move forward, thanks to your great efforts.

While we are not yet sure of the full scope of information that the attackers have or might release, we unfortunately have to ask you to assume that information about you in the possession of the company might be in their possession. While we would hope that common decency might prevent disclosure, we of course cannot assume that.

Yesterday, we told you that we are offering all employees identity protection services with a third-party service provider, AllClear ID, and that you would receive an email tomorrow outlining steps to sign up. If you sign up, the AllClear ID investigators would be available to answer your questions about how to handle disclosures of your confidential information.

Here is some of what we have learned so far;

• Sony is considering giving Spider-Man back to Marvel (Source)
• The Russo brothers will direct the Avengers 3 & 4 (Source)
• Steve Jobs film was a cluster fuck, *Bonus* Angelina Jolie is a "Spoiled Brat" with a "Rampaging Spoiled Ego" (Source)
• Detailed financial data including a gender pay discrepancy (Source)
• "Annie," "Fury," "Still Alice," "Mr. Turner," and "To Write Love on Her Arms" have been leaked (Source)
• Seth Rogen ($8.4M) made more money than James Franco ($6.5M) for The Interview, *Bonus* Kevin Federline was paid $5,000 for a cameo (Source)
• Even the employees think Adam Sandler films are terrible (Source)
• Some film stars have aliases that they use to do "normal people things" (Source, 2)
  
  • Tom Hanks - Johnny Madrid
  • Tobey Maguire - Neil Deep
  • Jessica Alba - Cash Money
  • Natalie Portman - Lauren Brown
  • Rob Schneider - Nazzo Good
  • Ice Cube - Darius Stone
  • Debra Messing - Ava Harper
  • Daniel Craig - Olwen Williams
  • Jude Law - Mr. Perry
  • Clive Owen - Robert Fenton
• Steven Spielberg is campaigning for a Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential bid (Source)
• Spike Lee is developing "School Daze Too." Drake will star as PE*NIS and Kevin Hart will be DAT NIGGA JIGGA (Source)
• Star Wars 8 & 9 will revolve around Luke & Leia (Source)
• Jennifer Lawrence signs her emails as "peanutbutt" and Brad Pitt signs his as "B P McWee" (Source)
• Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy, Lizzy Kaplan, and Amy Schumer are up for roles in the Ghostbusters reboot (Source)
• George Clooney is developing a film based on the Rupert Murdoch UK phone hacking scandal called "Hack Attack" (Source)
• The hackers routed the information through proxy servers located in Poland, Italy, Cyprus, Bolivia, Singapore, Thailand, & the United States (Source)
• Amy Pascal (Sony co-chairperson) & Scott Rudin (movie producer) joked about movies they think Obama would like to finance (Source)
  
  • Rudin "would he like to finance some movies."
  • Pascal "I doubt it. Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?"
  • Rudin "12 Years."
  • Pascal "Or the butler, or think like a man?"
  • Rudin "Ride-along. I bet he likes Kevin Hart."
• Bond 24, "Spectre," is still having the script reworked even though filming has already begun (Source)
• The MPAA, Universal, Sony, Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Disney are developing a plan to take on Google called "Project Goliath." The plan focuses on forcing Google to block sites hosting "infringing content" from customers of "major ISP's." (Source)
• The following films from 2013 made a profit beyond their budgets, as of April 2014 (Source):
  
  • This Is the End ($50M Profit, Budget $32M)
  • Grown Ups 2 ($48M, $80M)
  • Captain Phillips ($39M, $55M)
  • American Hustle ($27M, $40M)
  • One Direction: This Is Us ($18M, $10M)
  • Elysium ($18M, $115M)
  • The Monuments Men ($10M, $70M)
• Sony was able to convince Kevin James to lower his budget for "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" from $50M to $38M and Adam Sandler to lower his budget for "Pixels" from $135M to $110M (Source)
• Sony wanted to limit Mark Cuban's salary to $30k per episode of Shark Tank ($30k for S5, $31.2K for S6, & 32.4 for S7) and his co-star Kevin O'Leary would also make $30K per episode. Sony also wanted the rights to his catchphrases, including "nicknames, gestures, utterances, etc." Mark shot them down for being an insult to him. To compare, ABC pays Chris Harrison (The Bachelor) $50K per hour and Bruno Tonioli (Dancing With the Stars) $30K per hour and have shows within the same time frame. (Source)
• Sony fired Charles Sipkins (their former PR head) because Amy Pascal's husband, Bernie Weinraub, suggested it (Source)
• Jennifer Lawrence & Amy Adams were paid less than their male co-stars in "American Hustle." The breakdown was Cooper: 9%; Bale: 9%; Renner: 9%; Lawrence: 7%; Adams: 7% (Source)

[Anoat]

Some of what I was reading earlier was speculating that the hacks were financed (though not necessarily completed) by an angry North Korean government. They are still salty over "The Interview".

[Kuishen]

lol Some of that shit wasn't even encrypted? What a bunch of morons.

[Priran]

lol Some of that shit wasn't even encrypted? What a bunch of morons.

iirc the PSN data that was hacked a couple years ago was stored in plain text as well

[tyven]

what i find most interesting is that Rob Schneider thinks he needs an alias

[Salodin]

The jolie drama was quite hilarious. I can understand Lawrence not getting as much as the male actors in Hustle, but Adams? She fucking made that movie and was just as important as Bale.

Thank god spidey might go back to Marvel.

[ronin sparthos]

what i find most interesting is that Rob Schneider thinks he needs an alias

Hahahaha. Dude, get out of my head.

I'm pleased even execs get a queasy feeling when Adam Sandler movies are put to print.

[Ksandra]

what i find most interesting is that Rob Schneider thinks he needs an alias

LOL

[Abandon]

what i find most interesting is that Rob Schneider thinks he needs an alias

winner

[Gadritan]

To be fair, it's the perfect alias. Nazzo Good. Even he fucking knows it.

[Meresgi]

lol Some of that shit wasn't even encrypted? What a bunch of morons.

Sony "Why are we paying these security guys and system admins when our shit is running fine? Fire them all"

[6souls]

Sony is threatening the media with legal action should they continue to report on the findings

In the three-page letter to the legal offices of several news organizations, Boies said Sony "does not consent to your possession, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading, or making any use of the stolen information."

Furthermore, he said he was requesting "your cooperation in destroying" the materials.

Boies said that if the news organizations "used or disseminated" the materials, Sony "will have no choice but to hold you responsible."

Many news organizations, big and small, have been reporting on the revelations from the document dumps. In some cases, the hackers have tipped off journalists to new troves of private emails, budgets, scripts and other materials.

"Essentially, we've done their bidding," Variety co-editor in chief Andrew Wallenstein said on CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday. "We've maximized the exposure to this content. I don't do that lightly."

"But on the other hand, it was going to get out there anyway, and we have to be part of the conversation," Wallenstein said in defending his decision to publish excerpts from the documents.

Along with CNN, The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter and Re/code reported receiving letters from Boies on Sunday afternoon.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/14/medi...P_LN&hpt=hp_t2
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/bu...olen-data.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...reatens-757537
http://recode.net/2014/12/14/sony-de...m-stolen-data/

[Priran]

[Waraji]

^Eggactly

[Sho]

Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave right now. He always had said Sony was going downhill after they failed to create the legitimate digital successor to the Walkman. Then you have the battles he and Sony Music had with the onset of the iPod and iTunes. He always made mention of Sony's exceptionally terrible mismanagement and lack of communication between divisions at Sony, as well as Sony's terrible infrastructure when it came to digital products. This gigantic hacking scandal would have just been icing for the man if he was still alive.

[Acevalefor]

Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave right now. He always had said Sony was going downhill after they failed to create the legitimate digital successor to the Walkman. Then you have the battles he and Sony Music had with the onset of the iPod and iTunes. He always made mention of Sony's exceptionally terrible mismanagement and lack of communication between divisions at Sony, as well as Sony's terrible infrastructure when it came to digital products. This gigantic hacking scandal would have just been icing for the man if he was still alive.

My boss is the ex SVP of Sony Manufacturing. He is very vocal is his disapproval of the direction Sony took after he left in 2002. Now, with this revelation, he just shakes his head and laughs at them. The lack of communications between divisions is a result of the intentional compartmentalization done to create separation for lawsuit protection. Apparently, there are a lot of high profile people who would like to sue Sony into oblivion for their treatment. I don't feel one bit of sympathy for them at all. Sony can lay in the bed they made now. I do hope this doesn't negatively impact any of the unrelated parties swept up in this storm.

[Sepukku]

My boss is the ex SVP of Sony Manufacturing. He is very vocal is his disapproval of the direction Sony took after he left in 2002. Now, with this revelation, he just shakes his head and laughs at them. The lack of communications between divisions is a result of the intentional compartmentalization done to create separation for lawsuit protection. Apparently, there are a lot of high profile people who would like to sue Sony into oblivion for their treatment. I don't feel one bit of sympathy for them at all. Sony can lay in the bed they made now. I do hope this doesn't negatively impact any of the unrelated parties swept up in this storm.

As much as I'm enjoying Sony getting their just desserts, I'm really hoping if this gets worse that the Playstation division doesn't get impacted by it.

[Ksandra]

Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave right now. He always had said Sony was going downhill after they failed to create the legitimate digital successor to the Walkman. Then you have the battles he and Sony Music had with the onset of the iPod and iTunes. He always made mention of Sony's exceptionally terrible mismanagement and lack of communication between divisions at Sony, as well as Sony's terrible infrastructure when it came to digital products. This gigantic hacking scandal would have just been icing for the man if he was still alive.

While I get what you are saying about Sony itself. The Fappening was an iCloud leak, so if Jobs were rolling over in his grave he'd be a pretty big hypocrite.

[Xno Kappa]

Channing Tatum mad excited about 22 Jump Street lol.

[Mazmaz]

While I get what you are saying about Sony itself. The Fappening was an iCloud leak, so if Jobs were rolling over in his grave he'd be a pretty big hypocrite.

He rolled 360 degrees and went back to being dead