Sony
Corp’s Sony Pictures Entertainment objected to the online release by
WikiLeaks on Thursday of a searchable database of more than 30,000
documents that were obtained by hackers in a massive cyber attack last
year.
“The
cyber-attack on Sony Pictures was a malicious criminal act, and we
strongly condemn the indexing of stolen employee and other private and
privileged information on WikiLeaks,” the company said in a statement.
Sony Pictures said it “will continue to fight for the safety, security, and privacy of our company.”
The
documents stolen by the hackers were made available to the media last
year. They included embarrassing emails by then- Co-Chairman Amy Pascal
and personal information such as salaries and Social Security numbers of
employees.
The
release of 30,287 documents and 173,132 emails on WikiLeaks makes the
information widely available and searchable. WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy
website known for publishing classified U.S. government information,
said it believed the documents belonged in the public domain.
“This
archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational
corporation,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement. “It
is newsworthy and at the centre of a geo-political conflict.”
The
U.S. government had blamed the hack on North Korea after the reclusive
nation was angered by the Sony comedy “The Interview,” which depicted
the fictional assassination of leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea denied it
was involved in the attack.
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