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]

WTF are you talking about?
Inside Sony's Mysterious 'Red Pockets': Hackers Blow Open China Bribery Probe
Sony Probed India Business for Corruption, E-Mails Show
There are more cases, even including bribery of US politicians, but I couldn't find a link in 5 seconds so I leave that to the people interested to find.

There is plenty of stuff in the leaked data that Sony doesn't want to get spread because it shows that they are engaging in criminal activity on a global level.
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.

Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers

[ckatko]

Oh, hello, bottom of the internet! I didn't see you come in.

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.

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]

First of all this is an edited version. The OMG PERSONLYA INFORMATIN! is Sonys claim to try to prevent the incriminating stuff from spreading. If you actually look at what Wikileaks provide you see that they have provided way more than Sony wants them to but way less than Sony claims they do.

The problem with that is that editing hurts credibility. How do I know that Wikileaks haven't removed even more incriminating information?
It is still better than the information provided by Sony since it is done by a third party. It is not as good as raw data.

Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers

[AmiMoJo]

Wikileaks didn't publish the information, they are just archiving it. It's out there already, redacting it would have done nothing because anyone who cares can just grab the whole archive off any number of torrent sites or Usenet.

Wikileaks redacts when it is the only source of a leak. When the leaked information is available elsewhere unredacted it merely keeps and archive copy to make sure it stays online.

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

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

[twitnutttt]

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

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.

Link

[mtbrandao]

The "article" has a wall of text, but no link.
Here:
https://wikileaks.org/sony/press/

Huh?

[wisnoskij]

I always through that WL was about meaningful leaks for journalism/public good not just anything private that randomly gets leaked.

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.

Re:The Psy-Ops Shilling Is Real.

[ScentCone]

Yeah, you would not BELIEVE how much money I get from the Tri-Lateral Commission. You can too! Just follow my simple 5-step plan, which I lay out in my seminars, which I host annually at the Rothschilds. They always let me stay in their pool house.