ABSTRACT
On November 24, 2014, a hacker group that identified itself by the name "Guardians of Peace" (GOP) leaked confidential data from the film studio Sony Pictures Entertainment. The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, e-mails between employees, information about executive salaries at the company, copies of then-unreleased Sony films, and other information. In December 2014, the GOP group demanded that Sony pulls its film The Interview, a comedy about a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and threatened terrorist attacks at cinemas screening the film. Sony was made aware of the hack on November 24, 2014, as the malware previously installed rendered many Sony employees' computers inoperable, with the warning by a group calling themselves the Guardians of Peace, along with a portion of the confidential data taken during the hack. Several Sony-related Twitter accounts were also taken over.
