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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Sony hacking: were PlayStation servers used to spread stolen data?

Following the release of confidential documents and four unreleased films, in the Sony hacking reported by We Live Security here, the bad news for the company continued as it was reported that the company’s own PlayStation servers were used to distribute the stolen data, The Independent reports.
The Register claims that the file, weighing in at 27.78GB, was spread by ‘more than 60 systems’ seeding it through BitTorrent that appeared to be virtual servers from the Amazon EC2 cloud. However ‘a number’ of these servers also serve websites for Sony Computer Entertainment, with some of them having SSL certificates signed by the Japanese manufacturer.


Sony hacking: were PlayStation servers used to spread stolen data?

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