WikiLeaks publishes emails and documents from Sony Pictures hack

WikiLeaks has put thousands of internal Sony Pictures emails and documents online and made them searchable. The data comes from hackers who cracked the systems of the film studio last year. WikiLeaks states that the information has social relevance.

The so-called Sony Archives, which have been made searchable, contain 30,287 documents, 173,132 emails and more than 2,200 email addresses of Sony Pictures Entertainment employees. WikiLeaks says it published the information because it would show Sony has a significant influence on American politics, right up to the White House.

The company would use its influence to influence legislation and also have ties to the ‘military-industrial complex’. The internal emails show, among other things, that Sony tried in 2013 to convince Netflix to no longer allow VPN users to its streaming video platform.

The information that WikiLeaks has put online is not new: hackers published the material online last year after they cracked systems of Sony Pictures Entertainment. The attackers demanded that Sony not release the film ‘The Interview’. According to the US, the attack was carried out by or on behalf of North Korea. The FBI based its claims on clues found in the malware used.

Sony condemns WikiLeaks’ publication of the stolen material. According to the film studio, the whistleblower site assists the hackers by putting the information online.

It has now also become known that WikiLeaks foreman Julian Assange agrees to be questioned by law enforcement officials at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange is accused in a sex crime case. The WikiLeaks founder holed up in the embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden.