The attackers used malware
to break into the studio and render thousands of Sony Pictures
computers inoperable, forcing the company to take its entire network
offline, the FBI said.
It
said analysis of the software tools used revealed links to other malware
known to have been developed by "North Korean actors."
It also
cited "significant overlap" between the attack and other "malicious
cyber-activity" with direct links to Pyongyang, including an attack on
South Korean banks carried out by North Korea.
"We are deeply
concerned about the destructive nature of this attack on a private
sector entity and the ordinary citizens who worked there," the FBI said.
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If you can imagine thousands of computers, let's just take a thousand computers for example. Even if they bought in bulk these individual computers for say 200 to 500 dollars each that still for 1000 computers is 20,000 to 50,000 dollars. But then, add the loss of man hours of all the people who were using these computers for Sony Pictures and you begin to see the beginnings of the loss. Now add at least 50 million in lost revenues from this movie and whatever civil suits will be filed or already have been filed. Even if they win these suits as a company (all of them) there still will be millions of dollars in legal fees due and paid to their lawyers for defending them in court. So, this attack from North Korea is going to cost this company at a minimum likely somewhere between 100 and 500 million dollars or more by the time all this is done. And North Korea isn't through bullying Sony in Japan or the U.S. likely yet either. Will Sony Pictures survive all this? This actually might be debatable at this point they way this has been handled so far.
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