Hackers send mass email threatening Sony employees and their families


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Variety is reporting that Sony Pictures employees have received a mass threat, purporting to be from the same digital attackers that took down the company systems last week. Sony says it has alerted law enforcement to the threat. A separate warning went out advising employees to turn off mobile devices, although it is unclear whether the threat was accompanied by a new attack.

 

Since so much of the information from the initial hack has been made public on torrent sites, it's difficult to verify that this email came from the same group responsible for the earlier attack. Still, the email contains the same strange phrasing and echoes many of the themes present in earlier messages. The attackers identify themselves as a global group focused on the destruction of Sony Pictures, although they decline to name specific reasons why. The only demand is a cryptic one: "If you want to prevent us, make your company behave wisely."

 

Technical evidence indicates that the programs that took down Sony were compiled specifically for the attack a few days earlier on a computer coded to type in Korean, strongly implicating North Korea in the attack. The email is reproduced below in full:

 

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This is just disgusting, I have no idea what these people actually want out of Sony but threatening people and their families is pretty much dipping into terrorist territory!

 

It's about time someone stopped these people :(

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while this is truly the lowest humans can go, one does have to wonder if it really was north Korea who carried out the attack and that it was some one else trying to frame them. 

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