Unreleased Sony movies leaked to file-sharing sites after hack

Four unreleased movies were released by hackers days after the studio was compelled to close down its system because of a security rupture.

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s security hardships heightened this weekend when it was accounted for that a modest bunch of the studio’s as of late created movies were discharged to document offering sites.

Sony Pictures Hacked

The pilfered duplicates of five films started appearing online days after a security rupture purportedly constrained the film and TV arm of Japanese tech and media combination Sony to close down its system.

Four unreleased titles are among the films released internet, including a change of the musical “Annie” and “Mr. Turner,” both of which are because of be discharged one month from now, as per Variety. Different films discharged incorporate “Fury,” a Brad Pitt World War II show discharged a month ago, and “Still Alice,” a Julianne Moore film because of be discharged in January.

Sony couldn’t quickly be arrived at for input yet told Variety it was working with law authorization authorities on an examination of the robbery.

“The robbery of Sony Pictures Entertainment substance is a criminal matter, and we are working nearly with law authorization to address it,” a Sony representative told the diversion business news site.

Recently, a hacking gathering calling itself #GOP guaranteed to have gotten Sony Pictures’ inside information, including its “insider facts,” and said it would discharge the information to people in general on the off chance that its requests were not met, by. It is misty what the programmer gathering is requesting.

Since the November 24 assault on Sony’s system, agents have been attempting to figure out who was behind the hack. The organization is said to be examining the likelihood that programmers dealing with benefit of North Korea were behind the assault, as indicated by Recode. The site guessed that the assault may be because of Sony’s expected film “The Interview,” a comic drama because of be discharged one month from now featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco as TV columnists who get to be entangled in a plot to kill North Korean pioneer Kim Jong-Un.

This hack could be the most recent in a string of humiliating security breaks for Sony. Not long ago, programmer gathering DerpTrolling discharged a great many what it asserted were client logins from PlayStation Network, 2K Games and Windows Live – however a few reports have proposed the hole may have been faked.

In August, Sony’s PlayStation Network was brought around a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a typical programmer system that overpowers a framework with movement and makes general administration incidentally occupied. The gaming system was likewise the focus of a more serious hack in 2011, which prompted the presentation of the individual information of more than 100 million clients needed PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online. Sony took the systems – for downloading and playing diversions, films, and music – disconnected from the net for around a prior month bringing them go down.

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