Sony hackers threaten to release more internal emails

The hackers who broke into Sony Pictures, the film branch of the Japanese group, are threatening to release more internal emails from Sony employees. Sony employees who prefer not to have their emails published can indicate this to the hackers.

The hackers made their threat when they released a six-gigabyte e-mail archive consisting of e-mails to and from a Sony executive. The hackers argue that the next dump of stolen information is a “Christmas gift” consisting of “larger amounts of data”, which would also be “more interesting”. Recode reports that.

What is special is that Sony employees can indicate that they do not want their internal correspondence to be released. To do this, they must pass on their name and function to the hackers, after which they say that they will remove the information. There is no telling whether the hackers will actually heed Sony employees’ requests.

So far, the hackers have released information eight times, including a large amount of private information belonging to Sony employees. Meanwhile, Sony warns that media should not look for information in the documents, which Sony considers stolen. Over the past week, multiple media outlets brought news they had found in the documents, such as the Google-MPAA brawl and the Mario movie Nintendo and Sony were said to be working on.