Sony Hacking Problems Continue
Sony’s refusal to attend hearings has sparked the outrage of its skeptics as the company turns a deaf ear to them, calling on the FBI and private investigators to help out in determining who is behind the recent attacks on their networks. The delays in publicly informing both clients and bodies of authority have not won them pity, but the company has slowly been dealing with the repercussions in their own way.
In the letter sent May 3 to the US House of Representatives subcommittee created to deal with the matter, Sony executive Kazuo Hirai broke down the happenings in details, beginning with a start of a series of denial-of-service attacks on several of their companies and servers. These were DoS attacks that aim to disable user access to intended resources. Sony claims that the attacks coincided with the hacking, and the cybercriminals used it as a cover for their entrance into the system as Sony noticed the suspicious activities on April 19. By April 20 they had confirmed…
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