The origin of the Sony hacks is, according to the findings of the FBI in North Korea. President Obama announces a reaction and criticized the approach of the film studios.
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The FBI makes North Korea officially responsible for the hacking attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment. There is enough information that allowed this conclusion, said the federal police. For example, clear parallels between the infrastructure used in this attack and other “malicious cyber activities” such as North Korea’s attack on South Korean banks one had been found. In addition, malicious software was used, which was originally developed by North Korean hackers.
“We are deeply concerned about the destructive nature of this attack to a private company and the citizens who work there,” writes the FBI in his report. North Korea had a company operating in the United States “significant damage” Starting and want to suppress the right of US citizens to freedom of expression. The country is moving “beyond the limits of acceptable behavior of states”.
US President Barack Obama had spoken for the hack of a “serious matter of national security” and announced an “appropriate response” of the US government. “We will respond accordingly when and how we want it,” Obama said after the release of the FBI report on his last press conference this year. But he did not make details public.
In the past few days had been suggested repeatedly that North Korea was behind the attacks. Finally, the news agency Reuters has reported, citing a US government source that the country was supported by China. North Korea had denied involvement in the attacks and the denial renewed with a view of the FBI report. “Our country has no relationship to the hacker,” the North Korean agency announced at the UN.
If the hacker attack on Sony Pictures confidential documents and personal data and e-mails were masse captured from the systems. The attack is probably the biggest such attack on a company. He could plunge the film company in an existential crisis. Has been known since the attack, speculation
In the wake of the attack Sony had decided> not go as planned due to publish a mysterious terrorist threats, the North Korean Satire The Interview
The rejection of The Interview is a controversial issue in the United States. Even President Obama criticized the decision by Sony Pictures as “a mistake”. He could understand the concerns of the film studio though, would have wished that you had decided differently, Obama said. “We can not live in a society in which any dictator begins to exercise censorship in the United States.”
The criticism does not want to accept Sony. “We are not caved in,” said the head of Sony Pictures, Michael Lynton, the CNN. “The president, the press and the public are wrong when it comes to the actual course.” Sony does not control cinema and could not decide which films would shown. Obama’s remarks were disappointing, Lynton said. He was not sure whether the president understand the reasons which have led to the cancellation. “Therefore, I disagree with the view that it was a mistake.”
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