Sony employees have Friday dreigmailtjes received of criminals who are guilty would be the massive hack that the company has recently struck. In the e-mails to write the exploits that not only the employees but also their families in danger.
The criminals warn the workers and their families something to do if they did not meet requirements, but it is not known what these are. “What we have done is only a small part of our further plan,” threaten them in the e-mail, that is prepared with broken English, and also contains spelling errors. The criminals call themselves ‘Guardians of Peace’.
Sony is taking the threat seriously and let you know with the investigative agencies to work together to bring the perpetrators to punish, writes The New York Times. In addition, reports the FBI in a statement that the service of the mail to know. According to the service to show the recent events at Sony that cyber criminals a lot of damage.
The massive hack at Sony came last week to light. When it turned out that systems of Sony Pictures, a branch of Sony that movies and tv-series, would be cracked. Desktops of employees worldwide would have become unusable. The attackers received help from inside and put it only a torrent on the internet in which business documents would have been included. Friday there appeared again a torrent online with salary and verzekeringsinformatie of Sony employees.
Sony reported with the well-known Us security company FireEye work together to make the house to investigate. This happened after there are five new films from Sony, which is still in the cinema turned, appeared on the internet. The films appeared online after the hack, but it is not yet clear that the two cases have something to do with each other.
According to The New York Times know Sony and the FBI still do not who is behind the attack. The newspaper relies on sources within the study, that their identity is not public. In the meantime, there are several theories about who is behind the hack. One is that North Korea is behind the attack would sit to the Sony film The Interview, a comedy that the regime of Kim Jong-un on the grain. North Korea says the film can be seen as an ‘act of war’.