Is North Korea truly behind this? How audacious and, let's face it, technologically savvy. It's amazing to find out how the head of Sony wrote emails to tone down the head explosion. It seems that the Japanese themselves took seriously comments coming out of North Korea. Now the New York premiere is cancelled, while a couple of smaller cinema chains are perhaps the first to cancel.
Whoever it is, how could they so deeply dive into the Sony infrastructure and pull out so much information? While I have written before about the inevitability of a behavior change towards privacy to come, I did not think about corporations being as exposed as real people. But here we have the work of tens of thousands of real people - their salary data, social security numbers, senior executives racist comments about the President, views on celebrities or the person in the next cube.
This is still not the event that will change our individual behavior, but it's yet another example of the potential for malice when so much information is available.
Sony’s International Incident: Making Kim Jong-un’s Head Explode MSN/NYT: In one email, Mr. Hirai approves a newly altered assassination shot that had “no face melting, less fire in the hair, fewer embers on the face and the head explosion has been considerably obscured by the fire.”
Sony tells media to hide hacking news, but threats ring hollow - Yahoo Finance: Legal scholars, however, give little credence to Sony’s threat, pointing to a Supreme Court case from 2001 that clearly shields the news outlets.
ArcLight, Carmike Cinemas First To Cancel ‘The Interview’ After Hacker Threats | Deadline
New Sony Class Action Lawsuit: Studio Hit Again By Ex-Employees | Deadline: In terms of liability, with hard to replace social security numbers and other personal data out of over 47,000 past and present Sony employees now made public, among other dumps from the wide-spread hack, Dukrow and Yaconelli’s lawyers at Beverly Hills firm Johnson & Johnson LLP say Sony left everyone vulnerable.
Sony Pictures hack: Reveals gender pay gap at the entertainment company and Deloitte.Slate:Reporters who’ve combed through the compromised internal documents say they include social security numbers, passwords, medical records, disciplinary files, and, inexplicably, “the breastfeeding diet of a senior executive.” And, because salary data was also breached, we now know for a fact something we assume about most major American companies: The women who work at Sony are being paid less than the men.
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