Threateningemail have been sentto Sony Pictures employees and their families after a massive breach of Sony's computer network, the FBI confirmed late Friday.
Threatening
emails have been sent to Sony Pictures employees and their families
after a massive breach of Sony's computer network, the FBI confirmed
late Friday.
While the FBI confirmed it is investigating
threatening emails sent to Sony Pictures employees, it declined to
elaborate. "We're not confirming the details of the threat," the FBI
said in a statement.
The emailed threats say in part: "Many things
beyond imagination will happen at many places of the world... Please
sign your name to object the false of the company at the email address
below if you don't want to suffer damage. If you don't, not only you but
your family will be in danger." The text of the email was first
reported by Variety.
Sony declined to comment on the emails.
On November 24, a hacking group calling itself the Guardians of Peace claimed to have obtained Sony Pictures' internal data,
including its "secrets," and said it would release the data to the
public if its demands were not met, according to reports. It is unclear
what the hacker group was demanding.
Circumstantial evidence and speculation suggested the
hackers were working on behalf of North Korea, which has denounced
Sony's upcoming film "The Interview," starring Seth Rogen and James
Franco as TV journalists who become embroiled in a plot to assassinate
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. In June, North Korea's Ministry of
Foreign Affairs called the movie "terrorism" and described film-makers
as "gangster-like scoundrels." A spokesman for the foreign ministry said
the country would retaliate if the film -- due for release next month
-- is shown.
Hackers stole a cache of internal Sony files and
films totaling at least 100 terabytes, approximately 10 times the amount
of information stored in the Library of Congress. The information
included passwords, employee Social Security numbers, and contracts with celebrities and distributors.
"I
saw that my social security number," was in the stolen documents, said a
former Sony Pictures employee who asked not to be named. "It's really
bad. My friend there says it's as bad as you hear, multiplied by five."
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