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.

Comments

Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers

[Anonymous Coward]

The "It's only personal data, think about the children!" nonsense is a lame attempt at covering up their wrongdoings and make people not look to closely into the leaked e-mails.

And that's why journalists practice editing and redaction!! So you don't harm the janitor who is trying to feed his family because of the conniving actions of the CEO. And that's the difference between Assange and responsible (or even HUMANE) journalism.
The publicly useless, personal data and the revealing revelations of business dealings are two separate things. They should be managed as such.

Call it what it is, Stolen

[discovercomics]

Trafficking in stolen goods is what they are doing. just because it was leaked/hacked doesn't change the fact that a theft occured.

Re:Private details about employees

[Maritz]

Assange is obviously a narcissistic psychopath. He's in this for himself. Anyone in Wikileaks who thinks otherwise is a complete fool.

Spin doctors

[vivaoporto]

I don't know if I should be appalled or if it was just a coincidence but check my submission of the very dÃ-me story, reproduced on its entirety below for comparison:

+- WikiLeaks publishes The Sony Archives
Submitted by vivaoporto on Friday April 17, 2015 @09:39AM

"WikiLeaks published on its site a full, searchable archive of the data leaked during the high-profile hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment last year.

Some of its 30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and 173,132 emails highlights SPE inner works and thoughts on matters like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the case against Megaupload and the extradition of its founder Kim DotCom and the connections and alignments between Sony Pictures Entertainment and the US Democratic Party."

What surprises me is the similarity between both introductions not the completely different conclusion between both summaries. It is almost like there was an attempt to control the discussion of these leaks in the context of personal privacy (and of course it is an important part) but also burying the content of the leak itself and its political, social and economical implications.