Wikileaks Publishes Hacked Sony Emails, Documents

itwbennett writes Wikileaks has published a searchable database of thousands of emails and documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment that were leaked in late 2014 after the studio was attacked by hackers. Some of the 173,132 emails and 30,287 documents contain highly personal information about Sony employees including home addresses, personal phone numbers and social security numbers, a fact which is likely to raise new concerns about the use of stolen information online.

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WikiLeaks are fuckers

[Anonymous Coward]

They may have a "lofty ideal," but they ruin innocent bystanders lives.

Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not data leaked with the purpose of exposing a wrong.
This is no better than posting nude selfies ripped from celebrities' phones.

Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers

[Rei]

Huh? Could someone explain to me that it's a bad thing that Sony was investigating subcontractors and a foreign subsidiary for signs of corruption? Not being forced to, not being charged with it, but on their own? Isn't this what we want companies to do when they find evidence that there may be illegal or immoral activity among some of their employees? Or is this some sort of horrible shocking news that a company with 140,000 employees just within the main unit itself might have to police itself?

And let's not pretend that we're idiots here and that this sort of stuff makes up even the tinest fraction of a fraction of a percent of the leaked, non-redacted material full of personal information about regular employees doing nothing wrong.

Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers

[Anonymous Coward]

It's highly unlikely there is any bystander left. It's simply naive to believe that someone is not secretly hashing out all the posted data -- be reminded that it was already on P2P when Wikileaks pick it up -- for example various governments, or their agencies, or even competitors of Sony. The journalists were probably the slowest since they probably do not have the sophisticated tools the other players can use, while the journalists are really the only link between interesting information and interesting story for common people. Oh yes, there are common bad people and common good people, one may argue -- but it would be hard pressed to say that there are any good intentions from the big players when they try to analyze the data.

So, Wikileaks is not really doing much more harm, to say the least, since the majority of harm is already being done. It even has the good side effect of at least leveling the play field for the victims of the data leaks -- made sure that they know their data and what part of their data is out there -- so that they can sensibly deal with it.

Things one don't see often hurts more that clear imminent danger.

Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers

[Anonymous Coward]

Correct but off topic. Assange is not involved in this in any way.
And as bad as he is, he does not even approach the kind of evil Sony stands for.

And nothing of value was... gained?

[halivar]

Other than some titillating gossip that was hashed out 3-4 months ago already, this seems less than newsworthy.

Re:And nothing of value was... gained?

[twitnutttt]

It's bullshit news. It only glorifies shame and schadenfreude.

Private details about employees

[ScentCone]

Keepin' in classy, Wikileaks.

Nothing like proving your critics right while also accomplishing a lot of nothing.

Re:Private details about employees

[Anonymous Coward]

Note Sony's added weasel word "belongs".

They don't actually dispute that it *is* in the public domain.

Re:Private details about employees

[Rei]

It's not like anyone else with Wikileaks (which today amounts to only a handful of people) has any ability to change the head. As Assange put it, "I am the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organiser, financier and all the rest. If you have a problem with me, p**s off." There were lots of people that tried to get him to step down in late 2010. They are all no longer with Wikileaks, either by choice or by being explicitly kicked out.

Wikileaks could have been something great, long lasting, a major global value to society. In its early days it really looked like it was heading in that direction. Sadly ego can ruin any project. When you feel the need to start blackmailing Amnesty International for nearly a million dollars by threatening to not redact the names of their sources if they don't pay up, you've lost the moral high ground.

Re:There's a reason for professional journalism

[Anonymous Coward]

what innocent people did he cause to die? innocence? farcical. professional journalism, lol what is this, the 1970s? fucking idiot.

And this achieves what, exactly?

[gigaherz]

I'm all up for revealing bad secrets and showing the world the bad side of governments, but these are private emails with personal information. As far as leaking goes, this has everything of the bad, and nothing of the good.