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Sony Pictures condemns Wikileaks release of documents from hackers

April 16, 2015 publisher 287-documents, attack-on-sony, culver, massive-cyber, media, online, pictures, private, stolen-employee, will-continue

Sony Corp's Sony Pictures Entertainment objected to the online release by WikiLeaks on Thursday of a searchable database of more than 30,000 documents that were obtained by hackers in a massive cyber attack last year. “The cyber-attack on Sony Pictures was a malicious criminal act, and we strongly condemn the indexing of stolen employee and other private and privileged information on WikiLeaks,” the company said in a statement

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China says reports it helped cut off North Korea’s Internet ‘irresponsible’

December 23, 2014 creative attack-on-sony, attacks, chinese, district-judge, hack, hacking-attack, nobuhiro-kubo, north-korea, official, pictures, reuters, said-on-tuesday, secretary-suga, south-korea

BEIJING (Reuters) – Reports that China was involved in cutting off North Korea’s Internet are “irresponsible”, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remarks at a daily news briefing.

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Australia PM warns of ‘chatter’ as memorials held for siege victims

December 23, 2014 publisher aftermath, attack-on-sony, attacks, floral-tribute, hacking-attack, katrina-dawson, martin-place, prime-minister, said-on-tuesday, told-reporters

By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Tuesday security officials had intercepted a heightened level of “terrorist chatter” in the aftermath of the Sydney cafe siege. As memorial services were held for the two victims of the 16-hour siege a week ago, Abbott warned that the public needed to remain alert as the country headed into Christmas and New Year celebrations. “The national security agencies today indicated that there has been a heightened level of terrorist chatter in the aftermath of the Martin Place siege,” Abbott told reporters in Sydney.

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Internet outage seen in North Korea amid U.S. hacking dispute

December 22, 2014 admin attack-on-sony, berlin, citing-security, investigations, north-korea, pictures, the-continued, united-states, xinhua

By Lesley Wroughton and Megha Rajagopalan WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony pictures, itself experienced Internet outages on Monday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said. New Hampshire-based Dyn Research said the reason for the disruptions was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack.

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Japan, South Korea condemn Sony hack; Chinese paper says movie is senseless

December 20, 2014 publisher attack-on-sony, berlin, fictional-plot, hacking-attack, north, north-korean, united-states, xinhua

By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan and South Korea condemned a hacking attack on Sony Pictures that the United States has blamed on North Korea and said they would cooperate in international efforts against cyber-crime as asked for by Washington.

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U.S. to announce that North Korea behind Sony hack: CNN

December 17, 2014 admin angeles, attack-on-sony, cnn, cyber-attack, entrance, film, hollywood, premiere, united

BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. investigators have determined that North Korea is behind the cyber attack on Sony Corp's Hollywood studio and plan to announce their findings on Thursday, CNN reported.