Case summary Sony had been the target of online digital hacking since 2011. Suspicious activity first appeared in their PlayStation Network which consisted of over 77 million users and 130 servers across the globe. It was reported that personal information such as birth dates, addresses, and credit card numbers from the users have been transferred to outside computers and Sony had lost all control over the customer databases. In a single attack, the Sony data breach reached over 100 million customers resulting in the world’s largest data breach. The breach was the result of a “revenge hacking” where the internet was used to punish organizations for their public behaviour. However, the credit card information that was stolen was never used. …show more content…
Sony’s system was breached multiple times and their customers became very weary of their services. When personal information and credit card numbers had been stolen and transferred by the hackers, Sony was unable to track down where the breach is coming from and even let in more attacks in the future. Sony’s poor security and control system was the reason for the hackers’ attacks on their system to prove to Sony that they must provide better security services to their users. This was well represented by George Hotz when he hacked into the Sony PlayStation client operating system and posted his procedures online. It was showed major weakness in Sony’s controls and lack of …show more content…
Their customers no long trusted Sony with their unsecure computer systems and stopped using their services. Furthermore, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Web Site was also hacked and drained of personal information on its several million customers, in addition to 75000 “music codes” and 3.5 million coupons. Customers became infuriated and not only did many of them disassociate themselves from Sony, but users personally hacked into Sony’s computer system with no intention so steal or corrupt, but to prove that Sony’s lack of security is a threat to its company and to all their customers. For Sony, without its data, it cannot proceed in future initiatives until the problem is resolved which costed them $170 million and 4 weeks to recover just the PlayStation system alone. This is a major downplay for
However, I feel users had a different vision/perspective on security mechanisms and they trusted each other during those times and did not have to worry about protecting their information (this is how exactly, one person’s ignorance becomes another’s person’s - hacker, here bliss). This book helps us to understand the vulnerabilities; its impacts and why it is important to address/ fix those holes.
The Minneapolis based Target Corporation announced in December that criminals forced their way into the company’s computer system. The data breach compromised 40 million credit and debit card accounts of customers who shopped during the holiday season between November 27 and December 15, 2013. The data captured was far broader than originally imagined as hackers gained access to 70 million customer’s personal information including names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Additionally, expiration dates, debit-card PIN numbers, and the embedded code on the magnetic strip of the card were stolen.
Hacking into large companies or agencies to steal one’s card information has become simple. Lewis (2013) says that, “Hacking is incredibly easy; survey data consistently shows that 80 to 90 percent of successful breaches of corporate networks required only the most basic techniques“(p. 1). On November 27, 2013, Target’s security was breeched when forty million credit and debit cards were stolen. The breach lasted from November 27 to December 15, 2013.
Issa utilizes statistics to suggest ideas. He says, “The Office of Personnel Management’s security breach resulted in the theft of 22 million Americans’ information, including fingerprints, Social Security numbers, addresses, employment history, and financial records” (Issa). Issa also adds that, “The Internal Revenue Service’s hack left as many as 334,000 taxpayers accounts compromised‑though just this week, the IRS revised that number to o...
The length of the hack is still unknown, though evidence suggests that the intrusion had been occurring for more than a year, prior to its discovery. The hacker’s involved claim to have taken over 100 terabytes of data from Sony. [11].
Identity theft has been a major issue of privacy and fraud. In the data breach analysis from the Identity Theft Resource Center (2013), the number of data breaches from the year 2005 to 2012 increased. In 2012, there had been 49% where the data breach exposed people Social Security Number. The data breach of 2012 has a rate of 27.4% caused by hackers. These breaches were commonly from 36.4% businesses and 34.7% health and medical (Identity Theft Resource Center 2013). The number of identity theft varies from physical possession to digital possession. At least one-fifth of trash cans contains papers listing people’s credit card number and personal information. People that throw away their trash mails contain much personal information that is useful to steal someone's identity (Davis, 2002). Technology becomes a need where people use it daily and as a result it has also become a use for identity theft as well. Throughout the years as technology develops so does identity theft. This paper shows the types, methods and technique used for identity theft, and it also examines possible risk of identity theft from current technology.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling is a book that focuses on the events that occurred on and led up to the AT&T long-distance telephone switching system crashing on January 15, 1990. Not only was this event rare and unheard of it took place in a time when few people knew what was exactly going on and how to fix the problem. There were a lot of controversies about the events that led up to this event and the events that followed because not only did it happen on Martin Luther King Day, but few knew what the situation truly entailed. There was fear, skepticism, disbelief and worry surrounding the people that were involved and all of the issues that it incorporated. After these events took place the police began to crackdown on the law enforcement on hackers and other computer based law breakers. The story of the Hacker Crackdown is technological, sub cultural, criminal, and legal. There were many raids that took place and it became a symbolic debate between fighting serious computer crime and protecting the civil liberties of those involved.
Nowadays, hacking systems which get the data from payment card in retail stores is a popular issue. The use of stolen third-party vendor credentials and RAM scraping malwares were the main reasons for the data breach. A brief introduction of when and how the Home Depot’s data breach took place and how the home depot reacted to the issue and rectified it by
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Sony Corporation is a multination conglomerate corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan , and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue of US$88.7 billion (as of 2008) based in Minato, Tokyo .
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The ability to conduct warfare through technological methods has increased information security awareness and the need to protect an entities infrastructure. Subsequently, cyber warfare produces increased risk to security practitioners that employ technology and other methods to mitigate risks to information and the various systems that hold or transmit data. A significant risk to information lies in the conduct of electronic commerce, hereinafter called e-commerce. E-commerce is the purchasing or selling of goods and/or services through the internet or other electronic means (Liu, Chen, Huang, & Yang, 2013). In this article, the researcher will discuss cyber warfare risks, present an evaluation on established security measures, identify potential victims of identity theft, and present an examina...
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