- Jan 24, 2011
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It's a hard enough life indeed for Sony Pictures.
Last week, hackers attacked the movie studio, leaving employees' screens glowing with a red skeleton labeled "Hacked by #GOP" and a list of instructions and demands.
Since then, at least five new movies have been leaked online.
Four of those movies were previously unreleased. At least one of them, Annie - a remake of the musical play starring Jamie Foxx - was timed to be a holiday blockbuster with a release date of 19 December.
The other four movies that wound up making their debut on piracy hubs were Mr Turner, Still Alice, To Write Love On Her Arms and the World War II drama Fury.
According to Variety, Fury is now the second most-popular pirated film, with more than 1.2 million downloads as of 11am on Sunday.
The pirated movie copies began showing up online just days after last week's security breach reportedly forced the film and TV arm of Sony to shut down its network.
The group behind the 24 November attack is calling itself "Guardians of Peace".
The message it left behind after the attack threatened to release the company's "secrets and top secrets".
Sony has reportedly been investigating whether the attack might have been launched by North Korea - a hunch that's bolstered by the nation's outrage over the imminent release of The Interview, a Sony comedy that depicts a CIA plot to assassinate North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-Un.
The film stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as two TV journalists who secure an interview with Jong-Un and are later coached by the CIA to assassinate him.
North Korea's government has, expectedly, not reacted very positively to the notion of making a comedy out of murdering its leader.
In fact, it's promised "merciless" retaliation against the US if The Interview is released, calling the film an "act of war."
When asked about its involvement in the attack on Sony Pictures, a spokesperson for the North Korean government said:
The hostile forces are relating everything to the DPRK [North Korea]. I kindly advise you to just wait and see.
The day after last week's attack began, The Verge reportedly got an email from a related address from somebody who identified themselves as "lena".
Read more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/20...ckbuster-movies-pirated-after-network-attack/
Last week, hackers attacked the movie studio, leaving employees' screens glowing with a red skeleton labeled "Hacked by #GOP" and a list of instructions and demands.
Since then, at least five new movies have been leaked online.
Four of those movies were previously unreleased. At least one of them, Annie - a remake of the musical play starring Jamie Foxx - was timed to be a holiday blockbuster with a release date of 19 December.
The other four movies that wound up making their debut on piracy hubs were Mr Turner, Still Alice, To Write Love On Her Arms and the World War II drama Fury.
According to Variety, Fury is now the second most-popular pirated film, with more than 1.2 million downloads as of 11am on Sunday.
The pirated movie copies began showing up online just days after last week's security breach reportedly forced the film and TV arm of Sony to shut down its network.
The group behind the 24 November attack is calling itself "Guardians of Peace".
The message it left behind after the attack threatened to release the company's "secrets and top secrets".
Sony has reportedly been investigating whether the attack might have been launched by North Korea - a hunch that's bolstered by the nation's outrage over the imminent release of The Interview, a Sony comedy that depicts a CIA plot to assassinate North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-Un.
The film stars Seth Rogen and James Franco as two TV journalists who secure an interview with Jong-Un and are later coached by the CIA to assassinate him.
North Korea's government has, expectedly, not reacted very positively to the notion of making a comedy out of murdering its leader.
In fact, it's promised "merciless" retaliation against the US if The Interview is released, calling the film an "act of war."
When asked about its involvement in the attack on Sony Pictures, a spokesperson for the North Korean government said:
The hostile forces are relating everything to the DPRK [North Korea]. I kindly advise you to just wait and see.
The day after last week's attack began, The Verge reportedly got an email from a related address from somebody who identified themselves as "lena".
Read more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/20...ckbuster-movies-pirated-after-network-attack/
