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Sony Employees Receive Email Threat From Hackers: 'Your Family Will Be In Danger

Posted by Soulskill on from the going-out-of-their-way dept.

MojoKid writes: Things are going from bad to worse when it comes to the recent Sony Pictures Entertainment breach. Not only has sensitive financial information been released — including the salaries of high-ranking Sony executives — but more damaging personal information including 47,000 Social Security numbers of employees and actors have been leaked to the internet. We're now learning some even more disturbing details, unfortunately. Guardians of Peace (GOP), the hackers claiming responsibility for infiltrating Sony's computer network, are now threatening to harm the families of Sony employees. GOP reportedly sent Sony employees an email, which just so happened to be riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, that read in part, "your family will be in danger."

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  1. This is asinine by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 2, Informative

    I realize that Sony has done some extremely dickish things, And they should have learned, as a company, about the importance of security after the PSN debacle. But even so, this is asinine behavior on the part of whoever is making these threats.

  2. Re:That Word by myowntrueself · · Score: 4, Informative

    Guardians of Peace (GOP) [...] are now threatening to harm the families of Sony employees.

    You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

    In the context of Islam, as in 'Islam is a religion of peace', the word 'peace' means 'not struggling against the will of Allah'.

    So no, it probably doesn't mean what most people (native speakers of English) think it means.

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    In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
  3. Re:What's the threat for? by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Informative

    Was there a demand? The abstract doesn't say.

    Seriously, you don't know what this is about?

    Sony made a movie called "The interview" who's plot is that Seth Rogan gets the chance to interview Kim Jung un (Dictator of North Korea) and the CIA enlists them to kill him.
    North Korea took offence to that and demanded that Sony stop making the movie.
    Sony refused.
    The hacker group is suspect of being part of the North Korean military.