Experts: Sony Hackers Were Inside the Company Network for a Long Time

Bloomberg Businessweek | Dec 3, 2014

Sony’s plight is notable in one nontechnical way: The hackers don’t seem to have engineered the breach for financial gain. The main goal appears to have been to damage Sony’s computer systems and to humiliate the company by releasing internal information. “This seems to be about 90 percent assault, 10 percent theft,” says Mike Lloyd, chief technical officer of security firm RedSeal. “And even the theft was just assault by other means.”