New Sony Pictures leak appears to contain lists of passwords in plain text, security certificates

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by Sindy Cator on December 3, 2014 at 10:14 pm

Today, we received an email tipping us off to a new leak from GOP, the group claiming to have attacked Sony Pictures last week. The new dump of files appears to be a collection of Sony’s security certificates, signing keys, private keys for accessing servers and endless lists of passwords in plain-text spreadsheets. We won’t link to the leak due to the sensitive nature of the content. We’ve only had time to look over a handful of the files in the ZIP, but in a folder called “Password” a huge list of Excel files (many of which are unprotected) we found scores…