Friday, December 5, 2014
North Korea Behind Sony Hack?
Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked earlier this week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As the fallout continues, it has come to light that the hack includes the social security numbers of more than 47,000 current and former employees. Included in that 47,000 are celebrities like Sylvester Stallone, Judd Apatow, and Rebel Wilson. In a little bit of life imitating art, authorities suspect that North Korea is behind the attack, and the motivation behind it is the outrage over the movie The Interview, produced by Sony Pictures. Lending credence to that theory: so far one of the few files the hackers have leaked to the media is the budget for The Interview, and the salaries for Seth Rogen and James Franco ($44 million, $8.4 million, and $6.5 million, respectively). See Rogen talking about The Interview, including North Korea declaring the movie an act of war, below
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That is hilarious! I really want to see The Interview now
ReplyDeleteI was just telling my husband we have to see this movie. I can't wait to watch them on, "Naked and Afraid" next week.
ReplyDeleteOMG someone remind me to watch naked and Afraid next week!!
DeleteThis is so effing horrible. I feel so awful for those people. What are they supposed to do, change their SSN?
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when our government pooh-pooh or appears weak to our enemies. Few people are interested in global politics because they think it doesn't matter or won't affect them. But this demonstrates that anti-Western governments can and do impact ordinary citizens.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is what is scary, one smart hacker could take down the world......and definitely cause more damage and terror without leaving the comfort of their own home, take that ISIS jihadis.
DeleteThat's really sad is Sony has been hacked before with that Playstation incident. I was trying to sell some software that was just to log travel and entertainment but their security group was so tight arsed you couldn't get anything through. And yet they STILL had a breach. Heads will roll over this one. Knowing their culture they were still trying to make up their fucking minds on which security software to get. Seriously they're their own enemy.
ReplyDeleteWatch a stupid Seth Roegan movie start WW 3
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be surprised if the hacker starts leaking the private medical information of the celebrities. .because that's more damaging than their salary. .
ReplyDeleteYou got that right...........
DeleteI just don't see the logic. "Let's steal private information of movie stars and use it to sabotage a movie."
ReplyDeleteWe already know the stars make buttloads of money (HA at Seth outbanking Franco!!), that won't sabotage the movie. Stars' SSNs won't sabotage the movie (I mean, really, we know Bey's personal info from the last hack and she's still going strong).
@7 do you happen to know the link to beyonce's personal info??
Delete@sugarbread, I don't - it was part of last year's leak where they got information on Beyonce, KimK, Clinton, and several others. I did see a screencap when it happened but it's disappeared since.
Deleteeven if the information isn't important it does feel like a violation, even if someone broke into your house and stole nothing you'd feel violated, that just plain old terror or you wonder did they find important information and they are holding onto it for some other purpose later?
DeleteYou mean they didn't hack into Gerard Butler's computer since the villains in Olympus has Fallen were North Korean or maybe they liked the general concept of the movie except the ending.
ReplyDeleteWish this would prompt a permanent ban on Seth Rogen & James Franco movies. Throw in Jonah Hill as an added bonus! You couldn't pay me to watch this shit.
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