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sony may have lost its $150 million ransom payout, but the movie studios that participated in the the interview are still recovering. dreamworks suffered a ransomware attack in 2017, but recovered through a multi-year process of data and file recovery. disney is in the process of recovering from a similar incident that affected its theme parks, but only lost a bunch of data that couldnt be restored.
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a ransomware attack against the california department of fish and wildlife in 2017 cost $40,000 to fix. and what if the perpetrators simply werent looking for money? the california department of water resources successfully dodged a bullet when malicious data, instead of encrypted files, infected the printers they had for monitoring the oroville dam. the dams operators have had some tough luck lately with extensive flooding, the resulting debris damming the spillway, and the frozen lake oroville. so far, none of the data stolen from sony has been put to the streets, but it could be used by anyone, including foreign intelligence agencies, schiller says.
the question of what data has been stolen is still a mystery. jennifer newman, who was based in cybersecurity for sony pictures entertainment before moving to cybersecurity consulting firm zenithoptimedia, says the hackers made a strategic decision about what data to release.
keanum: things that were held back just to surprise us because they knew we would be able to all of our handkerchiefs were not in everybody's office, so we have a lot of handkerchiefs. things that we had, we just didn't want to tell anybody about them. we kind of like to keep them for ourselves. we always thought that there would be more secrets. that's kind of the way that we used to work. so we already have a lot of handkerchiefs.