Sony hackers 'shared' stolen employee login data (Lizard Squad & GOP)

BBC ^ | 30 December 2014

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30 December 2014 Last updated at 11:33

Sony hackers 'shared' stolen employee login data

Data that helped hackers access Sony's internal network came from another group targeting the firm's gaming network, reports the Washington Post.

In an interview, a self-proclaimed Lizard Squad member said it had given stolen data to the Guardians of Peace.

The GoP has carried out several attacks on Sony in a bid to halt the release of comedy film The Interview.

By contrast, the Lizard Squad targeted Sony's PlayStation network knocking it offline on Christmas Day.

The man interviewed by the newspaper appears to one of the two members who spoke to the BBC last week.

'Massive issues'

In the interview, the self-identified senior member of Lizard Squad said his group knew people that were part of GoP. Despite the connection, the spokesman said Lizard Squad did not play a "large part" in the attacks the GoP mounted against Sony.

GoP's attacks involved exposing confidential information about many Sony employees and sharing thousands of emails sent between employees, film stars and movie makers.

The Lizard Squad member said his group "handed over some Sony employee logins" that were used by GoP to get its initial attack underway. The admission is the first acknowledgement by the Lizard Squad of its connection to GoP.

[CGASMIA68]

and the President of the US once again spewed lies to the American People

[bigbob]

Whenever we are told who is responsible for ANY act that might embarrass or go against the party dogma, just ignore it. We’ve all seen this movie before.

[MeshugeMikey]

Al Sharpton is trying to sell the Idea that the GoP in the article is one and the same as a well known political party....

[gaijin]

Did our leadership and the NSA really ever believe the Nork angle..?

If they didn’t, WHY would they have made all those public statements advancing that claim..?

I’m asking because there is a very LOGICAL and DARK reason which would explain why they made the decision to do that.

[PGR88]

I always thought flaming skulls and “the Lizard Squad” was a bit far-fetched to be the work of North Korean apparatchiks.

And yet Holder’s FBI jumped into the North Korean angle with both feet.

[Norm Lenhart]

Thats true but there is another and it’s called Cloward Piven. Building distrust and contempt for govt is essential for destroying it.

[justa-hairyape]

Same reason Benghazi was blamed on a video. Use the false meme to attack a political foe, while ignoring the real culprits. That is how the US government runs now. Never let a crisis go to waste. Ignore the real crisis and attack the false crisis.