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	"plain_text": "A ransomware group claims to have breached ‘all Sony systems’\r\nBy Tom Ivan\r\nPublished: 2023-09-25 · Archived: 2026-04-05 13:45:28 UTC\r\nRansomware group Ransomed.vc claims to have successfully breached Sony Group and is threatening to sell a\r\ncache of data stolen from the Japanese company.\r\nWhile its claims remain unverified, Cyber Security Connect reports that the relative ransomware newcomer “has\r\nracked up an impressive amount of victims” since bursting onto the scene last month.\r\n“We have successfully compromissed [sic] all of sony systems,” the group claimed on both the clear and dark\r\nnets. “We won’t ransom them! We will sell the data. Due to Sony not wanting to pay. DATA IS FOR SALE.”\r\nAccording to Cyber Security Connect, the group has posted some proof-of-hack data, although it says this is “not\r\nparticularly compelling information on the face of things”.\r\nIt includes what appear to be screenshots of an internal log-in page, an internal PowerPoint presentation, several\r\nJava files, and a file tree of the leak which seemingly includes fewer than 6,000 files.\r\nThe group listed a “post date” of September 28, after which if nobody purchases the data, is presumably when\r\nRansomed.vc will publish the data wholesale.\r\nRansomed.vc is said to be both a ransomware operator and a ransomware-as-a-service organisation.\r\nhttps://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-ransomware-group-claims-to-have-beached-all-sony-systems/\r\nPage 1 of 3\n\nIt claims to be a “secure solution for addressing data security vulnerabilities within companies”, and also to be\r\noperating “in strict compliance with GDPR and Data Privacy Laws”.\r\n“In cases where payment is not received, we are obligated to report a Data Privacy Law violation to the GDPR\r\nagency!” the group says.\r\nMost of the Ransomed.vc’s members reportedly operate out of Ukraine and Russia.\r\nVGC has contacted Sony for comment on this report and will update it if we hear back from the company.\r\nIn 2011, Sony’s PlayStation Network suffered a massive breach that resulted in the personal details of\r\napproximately 77 million accounts being compromised and the service being taken offline for 23 days.\r\nSony initially estimated the hack would cost it more than $100m, and it was forced to apologise not only to\r\nplayers, but developers whose game launches were disrupted or whose online services were left unavailable.\r\nSony eventually faced as many as 55 class action lawsuits and agreed to offer compensation for those affected,\r\nincluding free games.\r\n“You are the lifeblood of the company,” PlayStation‘s US boss Jack Tretton said at the time. “Without you, there\r\nis no PlayStation. I want to apologise personally. It’s you that causes us to be humbled and amazed by the support\r\nyou continue to give.”\r\nTo Sony’s third-party publishing partners, Tretton said: “I know the outage has been costly. We wouldn’t be where\r\nwe are without you”. He added: “We are committed more than ever to making sure the PlayStation experience is\r\nentertaining and secure for everybody”.\r\nhttps://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-ransomware-group-claims-to-have-beached-all-sony-systems/\r\nPage 2 of 3\n\nSource: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-ransomware-group-claims-to-have-beached-all-sony-systems/\r\nhttps://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-ransomware-group-claims-to-have-beached-all-sony-systems/\r\nPage 3 of 3",
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