Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment last year.<\/p>\n
The archive apparently includes Sony conversations with Downing Street and with Hollywood figures.<\/p>\n
In November, the entertainment company suffered a cyber-attack weeks before releasing The Interview, a film criticised by the North Korean regime.<\/p>\n
Sony said it “strongly condemns” the Wikileaks release.<\/p>\n
“We vehemently disagree with WikiLeaks’ assertion that this material belongs in the public domain,” the company said in a statement.
\nThe Wikileaks dump includes more than 170,000 emails and over 20,000 documents.<\/p>\n
After November’s hack, an unknown organisation published the documents online, but it was not in an easily-searchable form.<\/p>\n
Julian Assange, the founder of the website, justified the publication by saying the documents show the inner functioning of a multinational company and are “at the centre of a geo-political conflict”.<\/p>\n
The attack came just weeks before Sony was set to release the film about a fictional American plot to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n
North Korea denied involvement in the attack but praised it as a “righteous deed”.<\/p>\n
In December, a group calling itself the “Guardians of Peace” threatened 9\/11-type attacks on cinemas showing the movie, spurring Sony to cancel the film’s release.<\/p>\n
Days later, amidst growing public pressure to show the film, Sony bosses appeared to change their minds and said they would give it a limited Christmas Day release.<\/p>\n
In January, the US imposed new sanctions on North Korea in response to the attack. And, in April, President Obama ordered the creation of a programme that would allow the US government to sanction foreign hackers.<\/p>\n
Mr Assange is currently seeking refuge at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after two women in Sweden accused him of rape and sexual assault.<\/p>\n
Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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