The document, which listed the names, titles, and salaries of more than 6,000 Sony Pictures employees including senior executives (and may have revealed a gender pay discrepancy), appears to be part of an enormous data breach that hit the studio last week, forcing them to shutter computer systems, move employees to paper and pencils, and call in the FBI and private security researchers to investigate the hack.

I spent most of last night combing through some of the other documents from the hack – there were 26 large archives linked to in the original public Pastebin file, some of which have since been pulled offline. And the breadth and depth of the information I found is just insane.

Assuming the contents of the leak can be verified – so far, they haven't been, and Sony Pictures hasn't responded to numerous requests for comment – the Sony Pictures hack appears to be of a completely different magnitude than the normal DDOS attacks, social media hijackings, and other data breaches we've grown accustomed to. In fact, it could be one of the largest corporate hacks in history.