Sony Pictures: Inside the Hack of the Century, Part 1

A must read for those intersted in the bqck story of thr 2014 Sony hack..from Fortune: http://fortune.com/sony-hack-part-1/


The money quote of how it began:

Three weeks later—starting at about 7 a.m. Pacific time on Monday, Nov. 24—a crushing cyberattack was launched on Sony Pictures. Employees logging on to its network were met with the sound of gunfire, scrolling threats, and the menacing image of a fiery skeleton looming over the tiny zombified heads of the studio’s top two executives.

Before Sony’s IT staff could pull the plug, the hackers’ malware had leaped from machine to machine throughout the lot and across continents, wiping out half of Sony’s global network. It erased everything stored on 3,262