Filip Novotny Film company Sony Pictures Entertainment suffered a major hacking attack in November that compromised personal email correspondence, working versions of several films and other internal information and data. This attack fundamentally changed how the company worked; older and currently safer technologies and practices are making a comeback. One of the employees testified about the unusual return of the fax machine, old printers and personal communication. Her story brought server TechCrunch.
"We're stuck here in 1992," says a Sony Pictures Entertainment employee on condition of anonymity. According to her, the entire office went back in its functioning many years ago. For security reasons, most of the computers have been disabled and electronic communication is practically unusable. “Emails are almost down and we don't have voicemails,” he tells TechCrunch. "People have been pulling old printers out of storage here, some are sending faxes. It's crazy."
The Sony Pictures offices are said to have lost most of their computers, leaving some employees with only one or two in the entire department. But those who use Macs were lucky. According to the words of the anonymous employee, the restrictions did not apply to them, as well as to mobile devices from Apple. “Most of the work here now is done on iPads and iPhones,” he says. However, certain restrictions also apply to these devices, for example, it is impossible to send attachments through the emergency e-mail system. "In a certain sense, we are living in the office from ten years ago," concludes the employee.
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All these limitations are the result hacker attack, which occurred on November 24 of this year. According to US authorities North Korean hackers are behind the attack because of a recently completed movie The Interview. The film deals with a pair of journalists who set out to film an interview with the leader of totalitarian Korea, Kim Jong-un. He, of course, did not come out in the best light in the comedy, which could have bothered the North Korean elites. Due to security risks, most American cinemas she refused to screen the film and its release is now uncertain. An online release is rumored, but that would bring in significantly less revenue than a traditional theatrical release.
And they will deprive us of such a great film. Magori. They should normally release it in cinemas, on DVD, online, everywhere, don't let them think that these bastards will dictate to the whole world.
The Korean boys must protect the leader.
They used the calculator and it shook the black man in the white house. LOL
“We're stuck here in 1992,”… “In a way, we're living in an office from ten years ago,”.
Looks like it's worse than I thought. They lost not only computers, but also calendars and calculators. They will have to go back to counting by heart. ;-)