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North Korea added to suspect list in Sony Pictures hack

Last week Sony Pictures was the target of a major cyber attack that left several of the company’s office completely non-functional. A group calling itself the G.O.P. (Guardians of Peace) claimed that it had stolen more than 11 terabytes of data from Sony Pictures’ servers including sensitive documents which may even include unreleased movies from the studio which have started to hit file sharing sites in the last few days.

According to sources for the Wall Street Journal,investigators have found similar pieces of code used in the attack on Sony Pictures to what was used in an attack on South Korean television stations and ATMs in 2013. The attack is widely considered to have been conducted by the North Korean government to coincide with North Korea’s severing official communications between it and South Korea.

Both NBC and Reuters are reporting that the FBI is now investigating North Korea as one of its main suspects in the attack. The reason for the attack is thought to be over an upcoming comedy film made by Sony Pictures called ‘The Interview’ in which an assassination plot for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is carried out.

Re/code has a fantastic summary of the situation on its site if you’e interested in digging deeper into the North Korean army’s hacking ability.

[Source – WSJ, Via – The Verge]

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