According
to the Wall Street Journal, hackers who took Sony Pictures
Entertainment’s computer systems offline used tools which were very
similar to those used last year in an attack on South Korean
television stations and ATMs. The similarity reinforces a suspicion
among some investigators, which include Sony, the FBI and a team from
the security company FireEye Inc., that North Korea played a role in
the breach.
Sony
Pictures is investigating if the North Korean regime was behind a
massive hack attack on the studio computer network. Email was damaged
and four movies were leaked.
The
website Re/code reported that Sony and its security consultants are
exploring the possibility that hackers based in China targeted studio
computers in retaliation for the upcoming release of the film
The
Interview.
In this film, Seth Rogen and James Franco play journalists who
arrange an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, and the
CIA then ask them to assassinate him.
On
Friday a North Korean government website called "The Interview"
an "evil act of provocation" that deserved "stern
punishment." Reportedly North Korea has organized a team of
approximately 3,000 hackers to promote the Kim regime.
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