The Sony Hack

What was the full impact of the Sony Hack? This mindmap attempts to show the big picture.

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The Sony Hack by Mind Map: The Sony Hack

1. Celebrity references

1.1. The Crazy Things Leaked In Sony Hack, Including Company's Hatred For Their Own Adam Sandler Films

1.2. Sony’s Amy Pascal Apologizes for Obama Emails

1.3. Concerns that Mark Zuckerberg might sue over The Social Network

1.4. Kevin Hart Responds to Sony ‘Whore’ Comment: ‘I Protect My Brand’

1.5. George Clooney Was the Only One Who Saw the Sony Hack Coming

1.6. Sony Hack: Alex Trebek Wanted to Quit Jeopardy! Over Re-shoot Request

1.7. Sony Hack: Leonardo DiCaprio Called "Despicable," Willow, Jaden Smith Mocked in Latest Sony Leak

2. Private details of Celebrities leaked

2.1. SONY PICTURES HACK EXPOSES HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES’ SECRET ALIASES

2.2. Put me through to Buffy's room, please. Sony hackers leak stars' numbers, travel aliases

3. Damage to Sony and Film Industry from leaks

3.1. Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Nasty Exchanges and Insults

3.2. Sony Hack Reveals 25-Page List of Reasons It Sucks To Work at Sony

3.3. Sony's Embarrassing Powerpoints Are Even Worse Than Their Shitty Movies

3.4. Sony Pictures Hack Reveals Stark Gender Pay Gap

3.4.1. Amy Adams "Was Prepared" to talk about the Sony Leaks on The Today Show

3.5. Sony Hack: Hollywood Assesses Amy Pascal's Survivability

3.6. Sony Pictures hack - a PR car crash from which company may never recover

3.7. Sony - Salary Leaks Causing Chaos in Negotiating Contracts

3.8. Confidential business and project details leaked

3.8.1. Sony hack: Next Bond movie is WAY over budget

3.8.2. Details on business relationships with 39 other companies

3.8.3. Details on anti-piracy efforts

3.8.4. Discussions with George Clooney on previously unannounced movie version of Hack Attack book

3.8.5. Discussions about uploading fake torrents to frustrate pirates

3.8.6. Leaked: The Nightmare Email Drama Behind Sony's Steve Jobs Disaster

3.8.7. Sony Execs Debated Risk of 'The Interview'

3.8.8. Sony Pictures’ Business Secrets Revealed In Hack — Yep, “Seinfeld” Is Still A Cash Cow

3.8.9. Script of upcoming Bond film, Spectre, leaked

4. Attackers communicate

4.1. 1. To Sony: original demands via email

4.2. 2. To Sony: Via hacked/wiped computers

4.2.1. Set deadline of 11/24/14 23:00 GMT

4.2.2. Made reference to previous demands

4.2.3. First reference to the #GOP moniker

4.3. With Journalists

4.3.1. Claims over 12 Terabytes of data is in their posession

4.3.2. Regularly receive information leading to new leaked files

4.4. 12/7/14: Some employees receive a threat

4.5. 12/8/14: The first time the attackers make reference to The Interview, while releasing the fourth batch of files

4.6. Sony Hackers Risk Exposure with Each Data Leak, According to Security Experts

4.7. Threat to moviegoers and theaters

5. Attribution

5.1. 12/1/14: First connection made to North Korea related to The Interview

5.2. After North Korea is repeatedly named as the "clear source" of the attack by many sources, the FBI announces there is no evidence linking N.Korea as of 12/09/14

5.3. Some Security Experts Doubt North Korea Hacked Sony

5.4. Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don’t Know So Far

5.5. North Korea Denies Sony Hack, Chaos Continues

5.6. North Korea Denies Hacking Sony, But Calls It 'Righteous'

5.7. The US Needs To Stop Pretending The Sony Hack Is Anything Less Than An Act Of War

5.8. I have no idea who hacked Sony. And Neither do you

5.9. Why you should demand proof before believing the US Government on North Korea and Sony

5.10. New evidence shows Russian hackers have access to Sony's network

5.11. Russia again

5.12. And... Russia

6. PR damage control

6.1. Sony Says Hack Attack Is “Unprecedented”

6.2. James Franco, Seth Rogen Spoof Sony Hack on SNL (Video)

6.3. The One Statement That Changes Everything For A Corporation That's Been Breached

7. Analysis of the leaks and the attack

7.1. A Look Through The Sony Pictures Data Hack: This Is As Bad As It Gets

7.2. ​The Sony Hacks Are Goddamn Terrifying

7.3. A Breakdown and Analysis of the December, 2014 Sony Hack

7.4. The breach at Sony Pictures is no longer just an IT issue

7.5. Root Cause analysis

7.6. Wiper Malware

8. The most extensive corporate leak and well planned PR attack ever?

8.1. Attackers notified and coordinated with journalists

8.2. Sony's files were analyzed, sorted and released with careful consideration to gradually increase the impact with each release of leaked data.

9. Private and secret technical data leaked

9.1. Sony's IT blueprints leaked by hackers

9.2. Details on how hacking incidents were handled in the past

9.3. Security assessment results from PWC

10. Impact on Corporate IT Security

10.1. Could Sony Hack Scare Other Companies into Beefing Up Cybersecurity?

11. Damage to physical Sony Pictures computers & impact on employee productivity

11.1. Reports of Employees being sent home

11.2. "Sony Hacked again"

11.3. Message displayed on employee computers

11.4. Analysis of malware used in the attack

11.4.1. WIPER MALWARE BEHIND SONY HACK ILLUSTRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF RISK MANAGEMENT

11.4.2. FBI warns U.S. firms of data-wiping malware following Sony attack

11.4.3. Inside the “wiper” malware that brought Sony Pictures to its knees

11.4.4. Connections between this malware and the malware used in other high profile attacks that damaged systems (Saudi Aramco, Dark Seoul)

11.4.4.1. Kaspersky exposes SONY-CRIPPLING malware DETAILS

11.5. Separate from the leaks, attackers rendered many computer systems unusable

11.6. I'm a Sony Pictures Employee

11.7. SONY PICTURES HACK WAS A LONG TIME COMING, SAY FORMER EMPLOYEES

11.8. Over 2 months later, Sony's Network was still down

12. The Interview

12.1. Sony nails 'The Interview' at festive, hack-free world premiere

12.2. Sony took pains to remove all references to itself from 'The Interview'

12.3. Sony Brass Worried Over Kim’s Fate in “The Interview” Film, Emails Show

12.4. Hacked: Sony Cancels Interviews with 'The Interview' Crew

12.5. New York premiere of Sony film The Interview cancelled

12.6. Sony - We Know How to Make This Movie Go Away

12.7. Jake Kouns calls it - once The Interview was pulled, the leaks stopped.

12.8. Backlash for pulling The Interview from theaters

12.8.1. Setting the wrong precedent: Top theater chains drop Sony's 'The Interview' after threats

12.9. The Interview is eventually released anyway, in digital form

12.9.1. The Interview makes $15m in online release (in the first 3 days!)

13. Legal and Ethical Dilemmas

13.1. BEWARE: DOWNLOADING THE HACKED SONY PICTURES DOCS COULD BRING THE FEDS TO YOUR DOOR

13.2. Why Publishing Stolen Sony Data Is Problematic but Necessary

13.3. Howard Stern is right: Journalists should do a gut check on Sony coverage

13.4. The Sony Hack and the Yellow Press

13.5. Why It’s Right To Report On The Sony Hack

13.6. Can Sony Get Around the First Amendment to Sue the Media Over the Hack? (Analysis)

14. Legal

14.1. Cyber Wars and the Legal Lessons from the Sony Hack

14.2. Sony Pictures Demands That News Agencies Delete ‘Stolen’ Data

14.3. Breach insurance might not cover losses at Sony Pictures

14.4. STATEMENT ON SPECTRE

14.5. Sony Pictures admits HIPAA data might have been compromised during breach

14.6. Sony allegedly scraps The Interview for Insurance reasons

14.7. Sony Tries Again to Make Twitter Delete Hacked Emails, But Twitter Isn't Budging

14.8. The Sony Hack is not an Excuse to Pass Bad Cybersecurity Laws

14.9. Sony hit with first class action lawsuit filed by hacked former employees

14.10. Lawsuit Consolidation

15. List of leaks, as released to journalists

15.1. 11/24/14 - Leak #1: List of 37,937,159 filenames

15.1.1. Insight into the types and specificities of data the attackers had access too (passwords, for example)

15.1.2. The beginning

15.2. 11/26/14 - Leak #2: Five Movies

15.2.1. Sony Pictures Movies Leak Online

15.2.2. Movies Leaked

15.2.2.1. Fury (still in theaters)

15.2.2.2. Annie (unreleased)

15.2.2.3. Mr. Turner (unreleased)

15.2.2.4. Still Alice (unreleased)

15.2.2.5. To Write Love on Her Arms (unreleased)

15.3. 12/01/14 - Leak #3: SPE_01

15.3.1. HR files

15.3.2. Marketing files

15.3.3. SSNs and other employee data

15.3.4. 24.6GB leak containing 33,880 files

15.4. 12/03/14 - Leak #4: SPE_02

15.4.1. passwords

15.4.2. digital certificates

15.4.3. sensitive technical data

15.4.4. 35.5MB leak (compressed)

15.5. 12/05/14 - Leak #5: SPE_03

15.5.1. Financial reporting

15.5.2. Contracts

15.5.3. Filming incident reports

15.5.4. 107GB leak (compressed) containing 233,718 files

15.6. 12/08/14 - Leak #6: SPE_04

15.6.1. Email of Steve Mosko, President of Sony Pictures

15.6.2. Email of Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures

15.6.3. 3.5GB leak (Steve Mosko's email)

15.6.4. 3.78GB leak (Amy Pascal's email)

15.7. 12/10/14 - Leak #7: SPE_05

15.7.1. Titled "Gift of Sony for 5th day: My Life At The Company – Part 1"

15.7.2. Info on anti-piracy efforts

15.7.3. Info on PS3 hacking

15.7.4. Info on relationships with TV/Content networks

15.7.5. 3.84GB leak

15.8. 12/10/14 - Leak #8: SPE_06

15.8.1. Sony Pictures Top Lawyer’s Emails Exposed in Latest Leak

15.8.2. Email of Leah Weil, General Council

15.9. 12/13/14 - Leak #9: SPE_07

15.9.1. Titled: "My Life At The Company – Part 2"

15.9.2. Financial and business documents

15.9.3. Security Assessment

15.9.4. 6.45GB leak containing 6,560 files

15.10. 12/14/14 - Leak #10: SPE_08

15.10.1. Titled: "GOP at Christmas, Part 2"

15.10.2. Email of Steven O'Dell, SVP International Distribution for Sony Pictures

15.11. 12/16/14 - Leak #11: SPE_09

15.11.1. Titled: "1st Christmas Gift, Michael Lynton"

15.11.2. Email of Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures

15.11.3. Came with a threat referencing The Interview and 9/11, suggesting part of the attackers' 'Christmas Gift' still remains

15.11.4. 5.53GB leak containing 72,900 emails

15.11.5. Final leak, as Sony caves the next day and cancels all future screenings of The Interview

15.12. 4/17/15 - Wikileaks Searchable Archive made available

16. Private employee data leaked

16.1. That Sony Pictures Hack Exposed Budgets, Layoffs and 3,800 SSNs

16.2. Salary and contact information for international employees

16.3. Sony's Hacking Nightmare Gets Worse: Employees Medical Records Revealed

16.4. INSIDE SONY PICTURES, EMPLOYEES ARE PANICKING ABOUT THEIR HACKED PERSONAL DATA

17. Data of other companies leaked

17.1. Sony Hack: Leaked emails claim Facebook made an ever bigger offer for Snapchat

17.2. SONY PICTURES HACK SPREADS TO DELOITTE: THOUSANDS OF AUDIT FIRM’S SALARIES ARE LEAKED

17.3. Snapchat buys eyewear company that lets you record video on the sly