Hackers Demand Sony Not To Release Movie About ‘Terrorism’

The hackers who broke into Sony Pictures are demanding that the company withdraw a film about ‘terrorism’. It is probably a comedy about North Korea. Despite that, there are serious doubts about whether the hackers have a connection with North Korea.

The hackers put their claim on the table in a post on GitHub. The hackers won’t name the film, but they’re talking about the “film of terrorism that can break peace in the region and cause war.” The film The Interview is a comedy about the assassination order of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the hackers seem to refer to it.

Despite this, there are serious doubts about whether hacker group #GOP has anything to do with North Korea. Mashable found a warning among the files that the hackers have put online, in which the hackers do not ask for the withdrawal of the film, but ask for money in bad English. It is not clear how much money they wanted. Moreover received a journalist from The Guardian received an email from the hackers containing Korean characters that, according to several people who responded, did not form a correct Korean sentence, but appeared to be a translation done via Google Translate.

The hacker group has now put a lot of data about Sony’s film branch online, including films themselves and privacy-sensitive data of staff and actors. The hack came out a few weeks ago.