Sony Pictures News: Seven Secrets From Sony Pictures Breach Employees Salaries, Romance And Scripts! What Are They?
Maybe pouring out on the nearly 40GB of data being hacked is today's goal, Sony Pictures Entertainment is too keen about the issue when they have got to know the group responsible for the hack and the hackers call themselves as GOP (Guardians of Peace) which tells us that there is more to come.
The reason behind the unfortunate hack is yet to be know but Northkorea is a suspect and FBI is actively0involved.
Saying that this is the worst corporate hack in history is never an exaggeration. It is never a struggle to relate the context into films being leaked for a studio for an easier understanding but what differs the to is the information within the hacked documents, it was more than just a film's data and content.
Below are the most promising pieces of information that we have learned and seen from the ill-gotten hack attack:
1. Sony will need to change ALL the passwords - Some of the informations being leaked last Wednesday included bona fide password databases and security certificates and a password is very much needed, now that the hackers have the access to their database system, Password encryption should be improved.
2. Seinfield still makes Sony a ton of money - one of things apparent on Sony's catalog in order to make money includes Seinfield which it is a show of entirely nothing and it still continues to pull of big bucks from Sony.
3. Seth rogen and James Franco got decent paydays from The Interview - These two actors were paid almost $7 million dollars for The Interview, The film is about journalists being asked to assassinate Kim jong-un by the CIA. Rogen even got additional payment for his work on the script, The said film is about the North Koreans (the hacking suspects) were so unhappy with how the movie went so they did the attack.
4. An Executive took romantic trips with a subordinate on the company's dime... and wasn't fired - Some number of provate HR documents were included in the leak including a folder named "Employee Issues", One particular letter indicated that the employee had "violated the company's electronic communication policy by sending explicit e-mails to other SPE employees." In addition, An executive vice president on SPE's business side is reported to be having intimate relationship with another company's subordinate.
5. The Pilot Script for Vince Giligans' Battle Creek is public - CBS had announced that it picked up Battle Creek from Breaking Bad's Vince Giligan and House's David Shore at its May air, The show is starred by Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters. Yet to its premier, CBS committed on showing 13 episodes.
6. Sony Pictures Chairman Amy Pascal makes $12 million a year - Sony being a large company has varying categories of compensation, of course, Compensation can vary and may take lots of time to study the documents and apparently, It was revealed that has $3 million dollar as her "base" salary but her gross compensation is close $12M a year.
7. Information Security within Sony was Atrocious - Redundant enough, the attack worsened due to the poor security protocols. The company hired 11 out 7,000 employees tasked with information security without even counting those people who might be responsible enough when something like this occurs. Hill found a 2007 interview in CIO Magazine with Sony's chief security Jason Spaltro, who have bragged about his "good-enough" security team. Well, Users who might still have the access to the confidential documents can use passwords such as "skateboard94" to look into the documents, Quite contradicting to Spaltro's, Isn't it?
