Ellis, Ralph December 20, 2014 | The FBI later clarified that the source IP addresses were associated with a group of North Korean businesses located in Shenyang in northeastern China |
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Among the information revealed in the emails was that Sony CEO pressured Sony Pictures co-chairwoman Amy Pascal to "soften" the assassination scene in the upcoming Sony film | I don't know if I subscribe to those theories, but I kind of don't think it was North Korea |
This email message had been mostly ignored by executives, lost in the volume they had received or treated as spam email.
5Sanger, David; Perlroth, Nicole December 22, 2014 | Fackler, Martin December 15, 2014 |
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Sony co-chairperson announced in the wake of the hack that she would step down as of May 2015, and instead will become more involved with film production under Sony | Stedman, Alex December 9, 2014 |
Outside the United States [ ] In China, the media coverage of the hackings has been limited and outside sources have been censored.
1Kilday, Gregg December 17, 2014 | The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, emails between employees, information about executive salaries at the company, copies of then-unreleased Sony films, plans for future Sony films, scripts for certain films, and other information |
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In light of the threats made to Sony over The Interview, cancelled its March 2015 production plans for a film adaptation of the graphic novel , which was set to star | White House officials treated the situation as a "serious national security matter", and the FBI formally stated on December 19 that they connected the North Korean government to the cyber-attacks |