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Wikileaks Publishes Hacked Sony Emails, Documents

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look dept.

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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  1. Private details about employees by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keepin' in classy, Wikileaks.

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

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    1. Re:Private details about employees by Rei · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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  2. Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. Re:WikiLeaks are fuckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  5. Spin doctors by vivaoporto · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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.