North Korea denies that it is involved in the weiter on the entertainmenttak of Sony. One of the theory lwa n was that the land behind the attack was to get revenge on a comedy that Sony makes about the liquidation of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
In an official statement says the North Korean government not to know of the attack. Reports that The Washington Post, on the basis of the declaration. However, the North Koreans deserve it, and it is suggested that sympathizers of the dictatorship is behind the attack sit. The anger of North Korea focuses on a film with Seth Rogen and James Franco in which two journalists the North Korean leader should liquidate.
Despite the denial from North Korea, the country is still suspicious. According to security company Symantec is in the attack at least one command-and-control server that was used in previous malware attacks on South Korea, that North Korea are carried out. Such servers can be used to create new instructions to the malware to send. That indicates that the same group behind the attacks on South Korea and Sony. Also by the attacks on South Korea were drives erased.
In the attack on Sony were computers of thousands of employees makes it inaccessible by erasing the data and were additionally data of 47,000 Sony employees and former employees stolen. In the meantime, the hackers started publishing the data they have captured, including salary data. Also, five Sony movies still in the cinema after the attack appeared on the internet, but it is not sure that that has something to do with the hack.
The hackers seem their data have been published from a hotel in Thailand, writes the news agency Bloomberg. It is unknown whether the hackers are physically in the hotel were, or that they have the connection of the hotel have cracked and if proxy is used. That last one is more likely: the attackers have large amounts of documents published, and hotel-wi-fi is not known for its high speed. The attackers could also be the network of a Thai university have used.