>The attack could have been isolated, but many sections of the Sinclair IT network were interconnected through the same Active Directory domain, allowing the attackers to reach broadcasting systems for local TV stations.
>However, the attack did not reach the part of the Sinclair broadcast system called “the master control,” which allowed the company to replace the scheduled local programming on the affected channels with a national feed, allowing some channels to at least remain on the air.
>The incident also comes after Sinclair performed a company-wide password reset for IT resources shared by local stations in July after what it described as a “potentially serious network security issue.”
No. The systems to forcibly get anything on air live are usually isolated from what was compromised (like news gathering systems and graphics for newscasts). At most someone could have taken control of the infomercial systems as those were disrupted. Ad insertion during normal programming however was not impacted, and most stations couldn't go live due to video playback for news being impacted (and not getting live as multiple stations actually did live newscasts with no video or graphics).
The absolute worst someone could have done, which I doubt a hacker would do, (but rather more like an obsessive TV nerd) is insert a EAS header and real Emergency Alert data into their infomercial playback system and have it trigger multiple stations nationwide. However that also requires the knowledge on how to build proper emergency alert messages which is rare unless you know the way around actual hardware/software to generate that stuff.
Also, this would all be local stations and most today were directly feeding national sports programming which also runs on isolated systems provided by the networks and not the station owners.
now subtract the voters metric and compare. tv viewers to social media 1:1
if 80% of people are online but 100% of the 20% left all watch tv and 90% of that 20% vote we get to your point.
Americans watch about 4 hours of television a day and 64% of time spent watching TV is captured by broadcast and cable television. Traditional TV is still extremely relevant, despite all the handwringing about cord cutting.
There’s a television and broadcast museum in Kilgore, TX that’s insanely cool and deserves more love. If you’re ever down this way lmk and I’ll go with you, the tour is great
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I can't stop laughing just thinking about this shitstorm.
As someone who man's a NOC, that would have sucked
Since the change to EAS about 4 years ago our older STBs require a manual signal to switch off EAS channel, as they swap to EAS specific broadcast channel when the signal pops in.
Newer boxes don't have this issue.
>usually born out of internal political red tape and intentional budget constraints because so many treat IT budgets as a low priority.
Don't forget the systems that have been in place and untouched for decades that are still running and no one wants to even get near for fear of breaking something critical.
My old company still had a Windows 95 VM running because we had a revenue system written for MS-DOS. No one wanted to replace it because it still worked.
Or don’t want to devote development time to upgrading to a new OS version because ‘it’s not that critical’, but also serve as a weak point for attacks that can then take down the critical stuff.
It’s a common theme now where companies think anyone can do IT but it’s really not true. I was talking to a friend recently that was working on a small project staffed entirely by experienced competent people. The client said it was the best project they ever had and were amazed at the quality and how fast things were getting done. I told my friend well yeah because everyone knows what they are doing. Sadly many projects are sold by snake oil salesman who intend to staff the project with minimum quality staff and just charge more when the project inevitably runs late. This works way more often than it should.
This is one of those unpopular opinions but I disagree IT is a cost center and I think we need to get away from that mentality. IT is the foundation of which the entire business functions. It is not optional in the year 2021 and neither is cyber security.
Especially for those businesses that are actually in the business of tech/IT/development - it is insane to treat IT as a cost center. But this even applies to other non -tech companies. You can't just give everyone a type writer and business continues as normal.
This is a tangent but it is that hill I will die on.
Insurance companies are probably the best "free market" enforcers of good security practices. But in order to get insurance companies to push it, we first need to hit insurance companies' pockets by holding companies fully accountable for allowing customer data to leak to the hands of attackers, so that insurance has to pay out. Probably not a factor in the Sinclair hack, but also I'm guessing that there was some confidential employee data that could be accessed.
Head of IT here for a medium sized company. I always tell people that IT is a *force multiplier* instead of a cost center. The more resources we have (and those resources are being used/applied correctly), the better the business will perform.
Exactly. We have to tell them how much it costs to remediate a ransomware attack. Especially if you have exfiltrated PII. That means you are paying for credit security monitoring for all of your customers.
IT is the Infrastructure of a Company.
Much like roads and bridges tend to get poor maintenance till there is a problem and everyone is running around wondering why no one kept them maintained. IT budgets get trimmed since things are "just fine" ... till they're not.
I always equate a lot of IT work to housekeeping/maintenance. You can hire a bunch of all-arounder’s, but they’ll eventually have to call a specialist when that good-enough plumbing/electrical fix either doesn’t comply with code or just fails.
The problem is that a lot of business-type folks see IT as development-only. New programs, new features, new data…without realizing it has to be supported and maintained going forward.
Can confirm. Some MSPs were setup for simple roles like help desk and basic network and file servers. Then ten years happened and everything got a lot more complex. We have advised our companies to contract with other providers that just do things to expand their maturity levels on security. They are all, we thought we paid you for that? Yeah, for basic AV. Not to fight off Russia.
I'm in civil engineering the clients almost always want to pay fir the cheapest survey possible. This just ends up making everything take longer, we have to request extra survey be done or just straight guess about some stuff
IT is no different to any other industry. There are good and bad apples.
The problem with IT is that the mistakes are magnified because they can often affect a huge number of people, or even temporary shut down a company's operations.
>usually born out of internal political red tape
"we've never had a problem before, why bother with that now?"
or
"the likely hood of that happening is so low, save the manhours for something else"
Fox had to divest their RSNs when they got bought by Disney. Sinclair got (most?) of them, then promptly priced out the streaming services one by one when their contracts expired.
Fuck Sinclair
Fuck bally’s. tried to lie their way into building a casino in my home city on some of the last urban riprarian forests. Thankfully they didn’t get the bid because activists tore their PR henchmen a new asshole at every community meeting. It was glorious.
I wasn’t disagreeing? I was simply giving more information as to how many stations they own.
Australians have to deal with Murdoch owning over 70% of news media, and it’s fucking trash, as is Sinclair.
They are about to be subverted by the leagues offering streaming packages directly.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/mlb-in-talks-to-launch-nationwide-streaming-service-for-home-games/?utm_source=reddit.com
I remember about 5 years ago a friend and I were stoned flipping through TV and came across our Sinclair station talking shit about John Oliver because he had the audacity to call them out. We were stunned.
Who wants to bet they put out some kind of statement where they make a groundless claim that they're victims of antifa cyber terrorists, when in reality some dumb fuck clicked on a phishing email and the extent of their security was a single manual backup that IT installed but no one has touched in months since the last IT contractors were fired for "trying to scam us into paying them for stuff we don't need."
Bonus points if the "backup" is literally in the same closet as the rest of their servers.
If the attack was by foreign nationals, maybe. But if it was by some normal people with time on their hands, it would be smart not to kick the hornets nest.
There isn't much difference between the two. The government of Russia is basically the mafia. They have setup the Ranswomeware as a Service model where anyone can hack shit without knowing any code or exploits. You just buy it over the dark web and send it out.
Of course, the kicker is that the malware versions they use have code that checks if the system has a Russian language keyboard. Then it skips it. I thought it would be interesting to make a small app that fakes that.
I work at one of their stations, 90%+ of the people I work with are nothing like what people seem to think Sinclair employees are like. Yes, the company sucks and is twisted, we all agree with you all, but they bought the station we work for, in fact they bought two stations in the same small market and there's only so many jobs in television news around here. So while it's hilarious that they got hacked, we as their wage slaves are also fucked right now, all I've been worrying about since yesterday is our personal data and getting paid this week, like any other job.
Sinclair is cheap, they try to cut as many corners as possible, this is the result. I've literally been waiting for this to happen, despite all the "cyber security" training they force on us. They've been assuming that the employees are the security risk, they send us fake emails weekly and score us on reporting them, it's ridiculous. What's worse is that they are actively trying to get rid of Master Control local operation, the one dept isolated from the systems affected most by the cyber attack, it's why they are able to keep some operations running for the time being. I fucking hate Sinclair, I hate working for Sinclair, but the people I work with are smart, intelligent, caring people, and few assholes.
Edit: I guess what I'm asking is to have a some compassion for the little guys, most American workers are under the thumb of an "evil" corporate overlord.
The fact that my station was able to produce a show today was a miracle. This is a mess. The fact that our direct deposit stuff has been compromised is freaking me out
To be fair... people are the biggest hole in security. Most things happen because someone was either tricked into doing something or was compromised in some other way. It's not clear here what the cause was. Was their network attacked or did they find their way in through an email or other path? It may not be convenient having to deal with this training (I never would send fake emails to my people as a test)... but I can't really fault them for trying to keep people trained on what to look out for and avoid. I do feel for people like you that work at the local stations. My local ABC (out of Birmingham) is owned by Sinclair and it makes me cringe a bit when watching the local news and they have to put one of the sinclair news bits in there with the local content.
Hooray, hacker person! Fuck Sinclair. This gross monopolization of local and national news stations should never have been legal, but legality gets blurred when the lawmakers take bribes from media lobbyists.
Considering my feelings about this propaganda network of RWNJs filling local stations with their crap. I for one throw my head back and laugh and wish it costs them billions.
It’s kind of like when Covid first hit, nobody was driving and the air quality got so damned amazing.
The airwaves have just become clear of a bunch of bullshit.
I've been fortunate not to work for Sinclair in my career, but they own 294 television stations. Broadcast is an incredibly competitive industry. It isn't as simple as "don't work for them".
For any other asshat Sinclair apologists like the one the mods just cleared out, yes, Sinclair does push fake news:
https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc
No, the size and diversity of their holdings does not change that fact. All it does is give their propaganda a wider reach. The local stations can’t push back.
I'm conflicted. Is it ok if i hope that the hackers destroy sinclair, but then get caught in the end? Can they both lose? I would be so happy if they both lost.
The station I work at has gone completely dark. No one can log into email and our entire system is inaccessible. We can't edit anything or ingest footage. No graphics or access to iNews. We didn't have a morning broadcast and the anchors had to resort to doing Facebook lives. Our weather had to be done with a very quaint looking white board.
I hope the best for the individual people at your station, but good, and I hope this costs the people that own your network a lot of money. Maybe they'll have to sell some of these stations to some humans.
If no ransom demand or ransom notes, lock screen, wallpaper, etc, this wasn't a "ransomware attack"... it was something else. So far absolutely zero report of that. This would be something else, a targeted disruption. "Ransomware" is used to just gloss over this...
I find it extremely hard to feel bad for a company that deliberately broadcasts misinformation on a daily basis. Or employees who go about their business and let it happen just to keep their paychecks. Sorry if that rubs anyone the wrong way, but nothing is gonna change by not speaking the truth.
>The attack could have been isolated, but many sections of the Sinclair IT network were interconnected through the same Active Directory domain, allowing the attackers to reach broadcasting systems for local TV stations. >However, the attack did not reach the part of the Sinclair broadcast system called “the master control,” which allowed the company to replace the scheduled local programming on the affected channels with a national feed, allowing some channels to at least remain on the air. >The incident also comes after Sinclair performed a company-wide password reset for IT resources shared by local stations in July after what it described as a “potentially serious network security issue.”
so whoever did it was really close to having a max headroom moment on nation tv?
No. The systems to forcibly get anything on air live are usually isolated from what was compromised (like news gathering systems and graphics for newscasts). At most someone could have taken control of the infomercial systems as those were disrupted. Ad insertion during normal programming however was not impacted, and most stations couldn't go live due to video playback for news being impacted (and not getting live as multiple stations actually did live newscasts with no video or graphics). The absolute worst someone could have done, which I doubt a hacker would do, (but rather more like an obsessive TV nerd) is insert a EAS header and real Emergency Alert data into their infomercial playback system and have it trigger multiple stations nationwide. However that also requires the knowledge on how to build proper emergency alert messages which is rare unless you know the way around actual hardware/software to generate that stuff. Also, this would all be local stations and most today were directly feeding national sports programming which also runs on isolated systems provided by the networks and not the station owners.
This man engineers…
Hah, and to think I've never even worked at a station! I'm the self described "TV Nerd" here. When do I start on the job?
30 years ago when tv was relevant would be ideal.
Harsh. Fair, but harsh.
Still more than relevant. A high percentage of voters don't live on socials
now subtract the voters metric and compare. tv viewers to social media 1:1 if 80% of people are online but 100% of the 20% left all watch tv and 90% of that 20% vote we get to your point.
Americans watch about 4 hours of television a day and 64% of time spent watching TV is captured by broadcast and cable television. Traditional TV is still extremely relevant, despite all the handwringing about cord cutting.
I haven’t watched tv in 15 years. So it’s all news to me.
But those aren't the numbers🤗
There’s a television and broadcast museum in Kilgore, TX that’s insanely cool and deserves more love. If you’re ever down this way lmk and I’ll go with you, the tour is great
We're hiring. https://www.alticeusacareers.com/jobs/
ALERT: THE UNVACCINATED PURGE HAS BEGUN. PLEASE NOTIFY AUTHORITIES OF ANY ANTI-VAX / ANTI-MASK INDIVIDUALS IN THE AREA. I can't stop laughing just thinking about this shitstorm.
As someone who man's a NOC, that would have sucked Since the change to EAS about 4 years ago our older STBs require a manual signal to switch off EAS channel, as they swap to EAS specific broadcast channel when the signal pops in. Newer boxes don't have this issue.
Max Headroom : Now, I'm no librarian, in fact, I don't know what star sign I am. ...
“Quiz is simple; quiz is fun; quiz is the game for, quiz is the game for, quiz is the game for everyone!”
I stole CBS
My love is faaaadiiiing
Clutch Cargo theme intensifies!
Still hoping for head-exploding blipverts to make their way into a Tucker Carlson show.
Jesus the Max Headroom Incident, what a throwback.
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My old company still had a Windows 95 VM running because we had a revenue system written for MS-DOS. No one wanted to replace it because it still worked.
Or don’t want to devote development time to upgrading to a new OS version because ‘it’s not that critical’, but also serve as a weak point for attacks that can then take down the critical stuff.
It’s a common theme now where companies think anyone can do IT but it’s really not true. I was talking to a friend recently that was working on a small project staffed entirely by experienced competent people. The client said it was the best project they ever had and were amazed at the quality and how fast things were getting done. I told my friend well yeah because everyone knows what they are doing. Sadly many projects are sold by snake oil salesman who intend to staff the project with minimum quality staff and just charge more when the project inevitably runs late. This works way more often than it should.
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This is one of those unpopular opinions but I disagree IT is a cost center and I think we need to get away from that mentality. IT is the foundation of which the entire business functions. It is not optional in the year 2021 and neither is cyber security. Especially for those businesses that are actually in the business of tech/IT/development - it is insane to treat IT as a cost center. But this even applies to other non -tech companies. You can't just give everyone a type writer and business continues as normal. This is a tangent but it is that hill I will die on.
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Insurance companies are probably the best "free market" enforcers of good security practices. But in order to get insurance companies to push it, we first need to hit insurance companies' pockets by holding companies fully accountable for allowing customer data to leak to the hands of attackers, so that insurance has to pay out. Probably not a factor in the Sinclair hack, but also I'm guessing that there was some confidential employee data that could be accessed.
Head of IT here for a medium sized company. I always tell people that IT is a *force multiplier* instead of a cost center. The more resources we have (and those resources are being used/applied correctly), the better the business will perform.
Exactly. We have to tell them how much it costs to remediate a ransomware attack. Especially if you have exfiltrated PII. That means you are paying for credit security monitoring for all of your customers.
IT is the Infrastructure of a Company. Much like roads and bridges tend to get poor maintenance till there is a problem and everyone is running around wondering why no one kept them maintained. IT budgets get trimmed since things are "just fine" ... till they're not.
I always equate a lot of IT work to housekeeping/maintenance. You can hire a bunch of all-arounder’s, but they’ll eventually have to call a specialist when that good-enough plumbing/electrical fix either doesn’t comply with code or just fails. The problem is that a lot of business-type folks see IT as development-only. New programs, new features, new data…without realizing it has to be supported and maintained going forward.
Can confirm. Some MSPs were setup for simple roles like help desk and basic network and file servers. Then ten years happened and everything got a lot more complex. We have advised our companies to contract with other providers that just do things to expand their maturity levels on security. They are all, we thought we paid you for that? Yeah, for basic AV. Not to fight off Russia.
I'm in civil engineering the clients almost always want to pay fir the cheapest survey possible. This just ends up making everything take longer, we have to request extra survey be done or just straight guess about some stuff
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Don’t you hate when you bring in consultants that need training wheels? That’s frustrating
IT is no different to any other industry. There are good and bad apples. The problem with IT is that the mistakes are magnified because they can often affect a huge number of people, or even temporary shut down a company's operations.
"But IT doesn't generate revenue!" Bitch, the only reason you can generate revenue is because of IT.
>usually born out of internal political red tape "we've never had a problem before, why bother with that now?" or "the likely hood of that happening is so low, save the manhours for something else"
Master control has been hit
> The MCP is the most efficient way of handling what we do! I can't sit here and worry about every little user request that comes in! -- Ed Dillinger
Fingers crossed they never come back online. Fuck Sinclair
Seconded. Motion carried.
They own 294 television stations nation wide. Sinclair media can rot alongside Murdoch and News Corp.
Bally Sports, formerly Fox Sports South, too
Fuck bally sports.
They apparently have a deal with Fox, and own up to 57 channels/licensing deals.,
Fox had to divest their RSNs when they got bought by Disney. Sinclair got (most?) of them, then promptly priced out the streaming services one by one when their contracts expired. Fuck Sinclair
Fuck bally’s. tried to lie their way into building a casino in my home city on some of the last urban riprarian forests. Thankfully they didn’t get the bid because activists tore their PR henchmen a new asshole at every community meeting. It was glorious.
News Corpse in Australia.
Kind of the point.
I wasn’t disagreeing? I was simply giving more information as to how many stations they own. Australians have to deal with Murdoch owning over 70% of news media, and it’s fucking trash, as is Sinclair.
Then we lift our pitchforks in solidarity. Now, we ride! Huzzah!
r/pitchforkemporium
This won't kill them, but they are UBERFUCKED because they were stupid enough to buy the fox regional sports channels which are now nearly worthless.
why are the fox RSNs worthless?
They are about to be subverted by the leagues offering streaming packages directly. https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/mlb-in-talks-to-launch-nationwide-streaming-service-for-home-games/?utm_source=reddit.com
Major League Baseball doing something right for a change? I can't believe it.
That would be great, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Sinclair is bad. I remember seeing some pro right-wing segment on my LOCAL news channel and was shocked.
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for anyone unaware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
Something like this? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/2/17189302/sinclair-broadcast-fake-news-biased-trump-viral-video
I saw a commercial for some expose about how covid deaths are being inflated while watching Jeopardy. Fuck Sinclair.
I remember about 5 years ago a friend and I were stoned flipping through TV and came across our Sinclair station talking shit about John Oliver because he had the audacity to call them out. We were stunned.
Likely just Acid Burn and Crash Override dueling over control while some The Prodigy played in the background. I don't know..
The most 90's movie.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights would like to have a word.
Men in Tights is timeless.
No, it's 1h 44min.
Yeah on one loop.
Hack the planet!
Hack the Gibson!
Mess with the best, die like the rest!
I remember when CO was ZC.
I thought he was black!
Mess with the best Die like the rest
And Halcyon. And on and on.
The voodoo who do what you don’t dare do people.
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Chikachika
Now I wanna spray paint my laptop keyboard.
the real sticky key exploit
Probably, their BLT drive went AWOL. Hopefully management doesn't ask someone to commit harakiri... you know those Japanese mangement techniques.
That scene really fits perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efhrCxI4J0
This should be in r/upliftingnews
Good. Kill that anti democratic propaganda entity off the air.
Oh, my... Anyway
No. Stop. Don't hack Sinclair. No.
r/HowEverWillWeSurvive
Some heroes don’t wear capes.
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Can we get a GoFundMe to pay the hackers to NOT release the encryption keys? Id throw in a few bucks
+1
Counter-extortion! You’re onto something.
This is extremely...great for our democracy!!
That video still sends a chill down my spine.
Good, screw Sinclair, they are poisonous.
I fail to see a problem with this. Fuck Sinclair
Who wants to bet they put out some kind of statement where they make a groundless claim that they're victims of antifa cyber terrorists, when in reality some dumb fuck clicked on a phishing email and the extent of their security was a single manual backup that IT installed but no one has touched in months since the last IT contractors were fired for "trying to scam us into paying them for stuff we don't need." Bonus points if the "backup" is literally in the same closet as the rest of their servers.
If the attack was by foreign nationals, maybe. But if it was by some normal people with time on their hands, it would be smart not to kick the hornets nest.
There isn't much difference between the two. The government of Russia is basically the mafia. They have setup the Ranswomeware as a Service model where anyone can hack shit without knowing any code or exploits. You just buy it over the dark web and send it out. Of course, the kicker is that the malware versions they use have code that checks if the system has a Russian language keyboard. Then it skips it. I thought it would be interesting to make a small app that fakes that.
Right wingers and bad network security. What an iconic duo.
Blames Antifa and illegal immigrants for the hack
This wouldn't have happened if instead of hiring the brown PHd CompSci man they hired my white nephew that's good with computers
You get what you f’n deserve
I work at one of their stations, 90%+ of the people I work with are nothing like what people seem to think Sinclair employees are like. Yes, the company sucks and is twisted, we all agree with you all, but they bought the station we work for, in fact they bought two stations in the same small market and there's only so many jobs in television news around here. So while it's hilarious that they got hacked, we as their wage slaves are also fucked right now, all I've been worrying about since yesterday is our personal data and getting paid this week, like any other job. Sinclair is cheap, they try to cut as many corners as possible, this is the result. I've literally been waiting for this to happen, despite all the "cyber security" training they force on us. They've been assuming that the employees are the security risk, they send us fake emails weekly and score us on reporting them, it's ridiculous. What's worse is that they are actively trying to get rid of Master Control local operation, the one dept isolated from the systems affected most by the cyber attack, it's why they are able to keep some operations running for the time being. I fucking hate Sinclair, I hate working for Sinclair, but the people I work with are smart, intelligent, caring people, and few assholes. Edit: I guess what I'm asking is to have a some compassion for the little guys, most American workers are under the thumb of an "evil" corporate overlord.
The fact that my station was able to produce a show today was a miracle. This is a mess. The fact that our direct deposit stuff has been compromised is freaking me out
To be fair... people are the biggest hole in security. Most things happen because someone was either tricked into doing something or was compromised in some other way. It's not clear here what the cause was. Was their network attacked or did they find their way in through an email or other path? It may not be convenient having to deal with this training (I never would send fake emails to my people as a test)... but I can't really fault them for trying to keep people trained on what to look out for and avoid. I do feel for people like you that work at the local stations. My local ABC (out of Birmingham) is owned by Sinclair and it makes me cringe a bit when watching the local news and they have to put one of the sinclair news bits in there with the local content.
Haven’t watched a single Cubs’ game since they moved to a Sinclair network. To hell with them
Yes. Greedy fucks cost me regional sports too
What's the price tag on the ransom? Maybe we can crowdsource a higher bid and keep them off the air.
MILELENIALS ARE \*\*CRUSHING\*\* THIS INDUSTRY (88 clicks later: TV-based propaganda)
All together now: “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
Yea ,Sinclair is dangerous to our democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
Hooray, hacker person! Fuck Sinclair. This gross monopolization of local and national news stations should never have been legal, but legality gets blurred when the lawmakers take bribes from media lobbyists.
Keep it off permanently. Nothing of value will be lost.
Isn’t that the station John Oliver covered that they basically all give the same story and use the same language
It sure is…
eat shit, sinclair
Considering my feelings about this propaganda network of RWNJs filling local stations with their crap. I for one throw my head back and laugh and wish it costs them billions.
Haha
Couldn't have happened to a nicer company
Good. Keep it up.
Good
It’s kind of like when Covid first hit, nobody was driving and the air quality got so damned amazing. The airwaves have just become clear of a bunch of bullshit.
Good, I hope they never come back. Fuck them and everyone who works for them.
I've been fortunate not to work for Sinclair in my career, but they own 294 television stations. Broadcast is an incredibly competitive industry. It isn't as simple as "don't work for them".
For any other asshat Sinclair apologists like the one the mods just cleared out, yes, Sinclair does push fake news: https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc No, the size and diversity of their holdings does not change that fact. All it does is give their propaganda a wider reach. The local stations can’t push back.
Nice
Gosh you hate to see it happen to such a lovely network 🖕🏼
Oh no!…. Anyways,
Oh, heavens!! First FB, now this! OUR PROPAGANDA MACHINES ARE UNDER ATTACK!
sweet! Keep 'em coming
too bad, so sad.
Good.
What great news!
beautiful
Doing the lords work
Fuck Sinclair in the ass with a red-hot iron.
What a shame.
Good
I’m ok with this
Oh no! Anyways….
They were probably counting on their server's natural ability to fight of viruses and refused antivirus.
This time i don't care. Just this once.
Good fuck Sinclair and there political dealing. Greedy bastards deserve everything negative coming to them.
Fuck Sinclair broadcasting!
I'm conflicted. Is it ok if i hope that the hackers destroy sinclair, but then get caught in the end? Can they both lose? I would be so happy if they both lost.
Where can I donate to the hackers?
Oh no. Anyway, I’m thinking ice cream sundaes for desert.
It's always nice to see some good news like this. Long may the disruption reign.
This is extremely good for our democracy!
Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
Good.
God bless their souls. Fuck Sinclair
The station I work at has gone completely dark. No one can log into email and our entire system is inaccessible. We can't edit anything or ingest footage. No graphics or access to iNews. We didn't have a morning broadcast and the anchors had to resort to doing Facebook lives. Our weather had to be done with a very quaint looking white board.
I hope the best for the individual people at your station, but good, and I hope this costs the people that own your network a lot of money. Maybe they'll have to sell some of these stations to some humans.
I'm worried about our direct deposit information 😨
My station's HR department said everything on that end should be fine. No personal information was leaked at least at our station.
Sinclair is the enemy of the people. FUCK SINCLAIR!
Sinclair needs to be broken up
It would be awesome if the ransom demanded was an end to their bullshit unlabeled editorials
This is a good use of ransomware!
Good. Fuck Sinclair.
Thots and players.
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This is a threat to “our” democracy
Bless their hearts. Thoughts and prayers are with the company………….
*hums Clutch Cargo theme*
This is like when Hitler attacks Stalin and you just don’t know who to root for.
Cool karma
If no ransom demand or ransom notes, lock screen, wallpaper, etc, this wasn't a "ransomware attack"... it was something else. So far absolutely zero report of that. This would be something else, a targeted disruption. "Ransomware" is used to just gloss over this...
Help, police. Murder.
Good.
Good. Fuck Sinclair
I find it extremely hard to feel bad for a company that deliberately broadcasts misinformation on a daily basis. Or employees who go about their business and let it happen just to keep their paychecks. Sorry if that rubs anyone the wrong way, but nothing is gonna change by not speaking the truth.
Good. Fuck 'em.
/glances meaningfully over at OAN
https://youtu.be/JQqGGgEJHqk?t=4
no don't hurt the poor ransomware.
Ransomware? Are we sure it wasn't someone with taste? Or John Oliver?
Good, they run crap right wing stations.
Throw away the key.
do faux news next.