Friday, December 19, 2014

Movie: Hacker affair with Sony: Traces lead to North Korea – ABC Online

Friday , 19.12.2014, 07:44
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The decision by Sony Pictures, the satire “The Interview” by a hacker affair and withdraw threats, provides in the USA for excitement. In the film, a North Korean dictator is to be killed.

After the hacker attack against Sony Pictures and terrorist threats against cinemas Pyongyang gets more and more into the sights of the investigation in the US , As the CNN reported with reference to unnamed government officials, the evidence of North Korean involvement compacted in the affair. “Digital Footprints” shown towards North Korea, it said. However, neither the White House nor did other authorities the alleged culprits public call by name. According to information from CNN Thursday evening (local time) will now discuss a response to the hacker.

Sony Pictures North Korea satire “The Interview” had withdrawn the day before. Since the majority of cinema operators in the US the film did not want to take the program, “we have decided to cancel the planned for December 25th theatrical release,” US media quoted from a statement by the studios. The film received two US journalists (Seth Rogen and James Franco) is mandated to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un during an interview to kill.

The film studio has the satire before publication even by the US government have it checked. The White House had seen the film at the request of Sony, President Barack Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest said on Thursday. The government had then its assessment communicated to the creators, but required no changes or even “dictated”. A policy for the review of films prior to their publication does not exist in the United States. Obama had the Americans despite terrorist threats against US cinemas recommended to see the movie without fear of attacks in the cinema.

Earnest classified an attack as a “matter of national security,” the US, but refrained from an attack to speak to them. There is evidence that a “sophisticated actor with malicious intent destructive” had acted. That North Korea was behind the attack, he did not confirm.

With the unprecedented cyber attack computer systems from Sony Pictures were in November nationwide attacked and stolen some data.

As CNN at night reported Friday that investigators are now encountered evidence that the passwords of a leading system administrator had been stolen from Sony. Thus, the hacker would have practically “the key to the whole building” had.

“The Interview” should launch in the US on December 25th. In Germany, the launch of the film with production costs of about 44 million US dollars (35 million euros) was planned for February. Sony has decided against any other form of release of the film, be it as a video on the private cable ducts or on DVD, quoted the magazine “Variety” a Sony spokeswoman.

Actors were disappointed by the cancellation , “A sad day for creativity,” Steve Carell wrote in Twitter. Rob Lowe tweeted: “Wow. All have caved. The hackers have won. “

 

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