Sony Pictures' security chief once thought data breaches weren't a big deal

Sony stands to lose a lot from the massive hack that continues to leak tons of documents and data — passwords, full-length films and the social security numbers of 47,000 people, including celebrities — to the public, experts say.

The company has remained mostly mum about the hack, but as Fusion points out, some of the Sony Pictures' history could possibly shed some light on the fact that data security wasn't always a major concern up top.

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In 2007, Sony's executive director of information security said in an interview with CIO that he wasn't willing to put up a lot of money to defend the company's sensitive information. He also talked about how he convinced a security auditor, a year before in 2006, that the company's use of very weak passwords wasn't such a big deal. Read more...

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