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How does 1 steal 100TB of data?!What kind of data-plan did the hackers have?


I am curious, just how do you transfer 100TB of data outside of SONY Corp?
Were they using a normal internet connection to hack in,
or did they physically break in and just steal servers from a rack in the Sony's data center?

Is no one curious? What kind of internet connection were these guys on that enables this level of data transfer? Please, can the security experts here educate me and give me their opinions as to theoritically how this is even possible, to move such mountains of data in what i am supposing is a relatively short period of time?

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Sony likely has fat fibre links to their main server farm, which would allow data to be transferred quickly. Attackers could have used bittorrent, to disguise and spread around the traffic to make it harder to detect, transferring data to multiple hijacked servers elsewhere, and then reassembling it later. A continuous data stream to a single IP would be kind of obvious to even the most novice sysop, but it sounds like Sony was a bunch of bumbling buffoons and they probably wouldn't have even noticed something that obvious.

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said by MacGyver:

A continuous data stream to a single IP would be kind of obvious to even the most novice sysop

Unless your company regularly throws multi-TB video project files around...
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Only "TIME" ....... Sony Was Also Hacked a Year Ago but Didn't Say Anything ! [ »time.com/3631229/sony-ha ··· t-rudin/ ]

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said by mackey:

said by MacGyver:

A continuous data stream to a single IP would be kind of obvious to even the most novice sysop

Unless your company regularly throws multi-TB video project files around...

That's a good answer.
Betcha the miscreants had to get more storage space on their end.

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said by itsTOR :

I am curious, just how do you transfer 100TB of data outside of SONY Corp?

How about 500GB a day for 200 days? It certainly had to be an extended access.
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I assume you mean 500gb and not mb lol
i can do probably 100 gig a day at 10 mb a sec. I was on my friends 45mb att uverse a while back and pulled around 10 gigs in under 10 minutes. So really a group of hackers all grabbing different directories could pull 100tb in a few hours to a couple days at most.

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said by Nanaki:

I assume you mean 500gb and not mb lol.

Yep, thanks, corrected.
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If this was mostly text (email, internal documents, scripts, what have you) then this could have easily been compressed down to something much smaller than 100TB.