Post: Many Security Staff Fired Prior To PSN Hack
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06-25-2011, 12:54 AM
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The Open Minded
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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // You must login or register to view this content. // By: The Open Minded // Friday, June 24th, 2011
In April the Playstation Network suffered a massive hack and the information of over 77 million users was stolen. This knowledge is pretty well known across the world.
In news related to the incident, a lawsuit has been filed against Sony. Several anonymous witnesses, all of which are ex-employees, have made statements that Sony was not doing its best to keep the networks secure. The suit names Sony Corporation of America, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment International as defendants.
One witness stated:
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[Sony] "laid off a substantial percentage of its Sony Online Entertainment workforce, including a number of employees in the Network Operations Center,"
The network operations center is responsible for preparing against and responding to any and all security breaches.
This shows that Sony indeed was not properly prepared when the hack occurred. With this information surfacing it is also safe to ask the question of whether one or more of the employees that had been laid off was behind the attack.
It was stated by another witness that Sony "spent lavishly" to protect its proprietary development server, the PS DevNetwork, "but recklessly declined to provide adequate protections for its customers' personal information," The witness that made this statement is said to have been employed with Sony from 2006 to 2008.
The suit against Sony also claims that Sony was aware of the weak state of security due to several smaller network hacks just prior to the full scale attack. More than one of the confidential witnesses seems to have confirmed this as true.
Now it is no doubt that many of you already suspected that Sony wasn't trying its hardest to protect the user information on it's servers, but this is confirmation. Sony is no doubt also at fault in the case of these hacks. As such a large company it is Sony's responsibility to protect user information from access.
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07-20-2011, 01:16 AM
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gettinmoney662
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Maybe they were laid off for not properly protecting the network and because of their ineptitude, PSN got hacked?
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