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WikiLeaks drops more Sony files
WikiLeaks released what they called “Sony Files Part 2,” dropping 276,394 more private files, e-mails and fiscal data onto their servers for the world to see.
The launch of Sony’s sensitive information is apparently in combination with the third anniversary of the encampment in the Ecuadorian embassy in London of Julian Assange. An Australian Internet activist, Assange, founded WikiLeaks in 2006.
Based on SlashGear.com, the fresh cache cuts a huge swathe across Sony’s communications, with everything from traveling calendars to contact detail lists, event planning and expenditure reports spanning multiple years and workers.
Sony was initially hit by hackers Nov. 24. A radiant reddish skeleton appeared on displays through the Culver City, Calif.-based Sony subsidiary company. The hack seemingly was in response to the planned launch of The Interview, which featured Seth Rogen and James Franco .
The hacking disclosed everything from workers’ private medical info to sensitive star details, including correspondence from Angelina Jolie to then-Sony head Amy Pascal, pay inequality between Jennifer Lawrence and her male costars in American Hustle and Emma Stone’s phone number as well as email address.
“In about a 30-second period, I reach ‘Select All’ and ‘Delete Forever,’ and tens of thousands of e-mails, like six years of e-mails, are now gone forever.
The hackers “got sloppy” when sending emails and posting online, Comey said. This let the feds to follow them to IP addresses “only used by the North Koreans.”
WikiLeaks released its first cache of Sony records on April 16. It contained 30,287 records from Sony 173,132 e-mails. Pictures Entertainment along with
The website calls them “The Sony Archives” and has handily arranged them into a searchable database, as opposed to the straightforward stash of files the hackers put up online when they initially started releasing them in December of this past year.
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