Insomniac Hacker Releases More Than 1.3 Million Stolen Files, Including Unannounced Games Info (videogameschronicle.com) 18
A ransomware group that claimed to have successfully hacked Insomniac Games has now leaked the vast majority of its stolen files. From a report: Last week ransomware group Rhysida threatened to expose sensitive data about the company, its employees and its upcoming games, if it wasn't paid for the data. It then published data online which appeared to corroborate its claim that it had successfully hacked the Sony-owned studio, including an annotated screenshot from Insomniac's upcoming Wolverine game.
The group then threatened to publish the stolen data within seven days, but first offered it for auction with a starting price of 50 Bitcoins (approximately $2 million). Now, according to Cyber Daily, Rhysida has followed through with its threat and posted more than 1.3 million files totalling 1.67 terabytes to its darknet leak site. Around 98% of the hacked data has been leaked, with Rhysida stating that "not sold data was uploaded," implying that the remaining 2% may have been sold to someone.
The group then threatened to publish the stolen data within seven days, but first offered it for auction with a starting price of 50 Bitcoins (approximately $2 million). Now, according to Cyber Daily, Rhysida has followed through with its threat and posted more than 1.3 million files totalling 1.67 terabytes to its darknet leak site. Around 98% of the hacked data has been leaked, with Rhysida stating that "not sold data was uploaded," implying that the remaining 2% may have been sold to someone.
What a poor hacker (Score:3, Insightful)
Insomniac Hacker Releases More Than 1.3 Million Stolen Files...
At first I thought "Aww poor hacker. Can't sleep at night because of the situation? How nice of her to release all the data, just because she can't sleep and feels guilty"...
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Her? (Score:2)
On what planet is this likely to be a girl? Almost certainly some maladjusted teenage/early 20s boy.
I thought we'd sorted this ages ago (Score:2, Interesting)
In the early 1970s, militant leftists liked to hijack planes and fly them to Cuba. Islamic terrorists like to kill people unless they got a payday.
The US and the UK (and to a lesser degree most other Western nations plus Cuba over the airplane hijack thing) started the whole "we do not negotiate with terrorists" thing.
They're going to do what they're going to do, you don't pay them for it or you're just giving them more resources for the next round. This really, really sucks if your family or friends are
Re:I thought we'd sorted this ages ago (Score:5, Insightful)
So if this place had your SSN, CC#, etc and they are approached for a ransom for this data ...
One question is, "Why did you give the place that data to begin with?"
Another is, "Now that someone has stolen that data, how is paying a ransom going to do anything to fix that?"
The data was stolen. Even if a ransom is paid, it was still stolen, AND AVAILABLE TO A CRIMINAL. I wouldn't accept the word of some thief to not use it or sell it to someone else anyway.
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The local gas company wanted a SSN before they would hook up my Mom's service for the first time. It's nuts. That scammy monopoly also recently disabled online autopay with credit card, which means you have to manually pay with a credit card or give them your checking account number. W.T.F.
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Just give them the SSN that came on the card with her new wallet [snopes.com].
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Once the hackers have your data, they have your data. It's past protecting. The ransom payment only gives you an illusion of safety.
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No it the had say your credit card number, paying the ransom does not guarantee they don't have a copy, even if they gave you encryption keys, they have those keys and they could have made a copy.
If you have a backup, then paying the ransom gives you nothing. Even if you don't have a backup and they give you the encryption keys, do you really trust these people haven't put some trojan on your system?
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The question is why are things that are meant to be secret given out to people in the first place, why is your SSN used as some sort of ID. Why when we have had challenge response for at least 30 years do we still give out credit card numbers to random web sites.
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They can't do anything with my SSN, I have several of them, my bank, my business (SSN do not have to be accurate, any 10 digit number such as a phone number will do for most but the actual government interactions) and CC numbers are the easiest thing to cancel and replace, it happens so often, I have a set of brand new cards pretty much every few months.
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Frankly our own government could help matters a