(Business Insider) The hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment is one of the most debilitating ever targeted at US corporate servers.
The Nov 24th incident didn’t just result in the theft of proprietary data, including unreleased films and employee information.
It is reportedly the first to use “a highly destructive class of malicious software that is designed to make computer networks unable to operate” into a company’s computer system in the United States, according to Reuters.
North Korea has emerged as a leading suspect in the hack. Pyongyang had already vowed “merciless” retaliation over “The Interview,” a Sony release in which James Franco and Seth Rogan play talk show hosts that the CIA enlists for an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
