Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig...
by baddox on Saturday December 20, 2014 @12:25PM
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Every article I have seen claims that the threatening emails were sent by the same hackers, although I haven't seen any reasoning behind this claim. Two examples:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/16/7402649/sony-hackers-thre...
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/theaters-now-pull-team-a...
Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig...
by digi_owl on Saturday December 20, 2014 @01:16PM
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That Verge article is perhaps what i was missing. Seems the threats were attached to a copy of previously unreleased emails from the Sony hack. Thus at least demonstrating that the threat is coming from someone that has access to the files from the hack.
Now if that is the same as the original hacker(s), never mind if they are actually attached to NK in any way, is another issue entirely.
Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig...
by lotsofmangos on Saturday December 20, 2014 @11:34AM
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One thing to consider is that it is entirely possible that whoever did the hack is scratching their heads right now and wondering who threatened the cinemas.
Re:North Korea, Denying Sony Attack, Proposes Joint Investig...
by walshemj on Saturday December 20, 2014 @11:56AM
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if it I a group of non NK hackers they are probably thinking oh shit this is getting out of control my life is so fucked - or alternatively squealing to the CIA/FBI to get a reduced sentence in return for going states evidence.
As best i understand they were "just" online threats, but came in the wake of similar threats to Sony employees and their families.
At this point in time i think there is a subset of internet trolls that get their "lulz" from finding some high profile controversial topic and throwing random threats at whoever is involved.