Let the bickering begin: Second hacker team claims responsibility for Sony breach

Several days after the crime group named RansomedVC claimed responsibility for attacking Sony's systems, another threat actor named MajorNelson contradicts these claims.

RansomedVC asserted they had breached Sony and were selling the stolen data for $2.5 million, despite only posting a small sample of about 2 MB, including files like a PowerPoint presentation and Java source code.

MajorNelson disputes RansomedVC's claims and has leaked a larger 3.14 GB uncompressed data archive purportedly belonging to Sony.

This archive reportedly contains various internal system credentials, files related to SonarQube security scanners, Creators Cloud, Sony's certificates, and more.

Despite both claiming responsibility, it's challenging to definitively attribute the data breach, and the authenticity of the shared data has not been verified. It's also unclear what is the magnitude of the breach.

Sony is currently investigating the situation and has refrained from further comments. In the past, Sony faced a significant cyber attack in 2014 when North Korean hackers breached Sony Pictures to censor the film "The Interview" as well as the 2011major PlayStation Network attack by Anonymous.