At this point I'm curious if this is the result of any large company becoming the whipping boy of multiple hacking groups, or if this is just unique to Sony.<p>For example, if Microsoft were focused on next... or Ford or GE or IBM, would the same endless embarrassment ensue?<p>When Sony originally got hacked, I commented like everyone else: Sony is incompetent, their security team is subpar, etc, but after the 12th hack... is this just how shoddy most systems are and they just have the spotlight on them at the moment?<p>I believe back on the announcement thread of the latest hack here on HN, there was an entire sub-thread about "Is this the norm at big companies?" and the consensus was "yes". Someone mentioned security was between "horribly broken" and "totally laughable". Of course that's always juicy to read, but I wonder how true it is.<p>If this endless list of penetration is any sort of barometer, it looks to be true.<p>I'll be curious what the global fallout of this is. I would hate to be the next company that does something socially unacceptable that gets the baton passed to them from Sony.
If they have a security team (which I hope they do), I feel bad for them (considering the last few weeks). Probably were under staffed and ignored for a long time and now are under a terrible pressure.
Obscure hack that was hard to defend against (DNS or OS vuln) I'd feel sad about.<p>Not encrypting customer data and transport, plain text passwords, etc.. doesn't make me feel sad, at all.
Despite the noble 'Little guy fights back' story. I'm starting to wonder if this will have an overall detrimental effect?, Give wings to Sarkozy's desire to police and control the internet, and overall limit consumer and business confidence in web security?
This is the first time that I have looked at any of these 'Sony' hacks. I had a quick look at their website, and the credits at the bottom clearly say that it was designed, developed and run by two third parties - yet they aren't mentioned in the headline.
I guess this serves as a proof that some large corporations don't take security seriously enough. And we're supposed to trust them with our data. I think we should have a "Hall of Shame" for all this companies that fail from a security perspective.
Okay, this is sad. Not that Sony got hacked again, but that I'm putting Sony getting hacked and Yet-Another-Groupon-Article into the same basket: do we really need to post this. I mean, at this point, I'll assume Sony is constantly being backed. Come back in 100 days and post a 100-days since Sony was hacked. That would probably be more informative. As for Groupon: everyone has a weasel-filled opinion.<p>And I thought /. was plagued by duping stories.