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Forums - General - Anonymous continues with hacking. Released 40TB dump.

I'm shocked that so many people think this company should have been all over the issue. The vast majority of companies do not take a proactive stance towards fighting off hackers. Most IT security teams deal with fixing problems after the fact, not monitoring possible break-ins. It's pretty costly to pay people to constantly monitor all data transfers that occur on a company's systems. If ###.###.###.### is accessing XXXXXXXX.YYY that could just be business as usual as much as an attack. They'd need people who know which ip addys can access what, and they'd need those people watching 24-7. Most companies don't have anything valuable enough to warrant that, and those that do have probably never faced a scenario that prompted them to move in that direction. I mean, this isn't like the movie Hackers. That kind of security is rare if it exists at all, and it's hella expensive.  I mean, look at how long it took Sony to notice something was up.  Longer than it took for data to be stollen, that's for sure.



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I wonder if Anonymous will ever be caught... I hope so, because honestly what they did to Sony pisses me off; I want to manage my account god!@#$%+!!!



radishhead said:
Evil companies.. hmm...

Activision? :)


^ lol!



           

Mr Khan said:
thetonestarr said:
They didn't download it, most likely. At even the absolute best commercial internet connections in the world (we're talking 1Gbps-type speeds), 40TB would take 4 days straight of 100% maxed out transfer rates, and that relies on both the corporation having that fast an upload speed and the hacker having that fast a download speed.

Then there's where the heck they'd put it. They themselves said they don't know what to do with it.

Given that 99% of the American population doesn't even have access to speeds above 10Mbps (whether that be for finances or the services simply not existing where they live), we can pretty much rule out that they downloaded that much (at 10Mbps instead of 1Gbps, that 4 days becomes 388 days. Again, 100% maxed out the entire time).

No, what happened in this story is that Anon got ACCESS to 40TB internal data, and have begun doing frightening things with that access.

And you'd think that sometime in those 4 days (or far longer), the company being downloaded from would figure it out...


Yeah, 40TB is a pretty big thing to not notice going through the pipelines.



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What if they did not download it through the net but instead got someone to get it from the source like wikileaks did with all the government docs?



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Think about how much data 40TB is. That many hard drives would cost about $2000-$2600 to obtain at the lowest prices possible today.

Besides, it's Anon. It's hacking. System-to-system, across the network.



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thetonestarr said:
Think about how much data 40TB is. That many hard drives would cost about $2000-$2600 to obtain at the lowest prices possible today.

Besides, it's Anon. It's hacking. System-to-system, across the network.

When you put it that way this sounds highly unbelievable. 



Please be Activision or Microsoft, they haven't been touched yet.