Sony Pictures Breach: The Guardians Of Peace (Gop)

Sony Pictures Breach

The Guardians of Peace (GOP) as what they call themselves, cyber hacked Sony Pictures on November 24, 2014. The GOP released confidential information of employees and their families. In addition to this, the company’s unreleased films were exposed. What do they want in return? The hackers desired the company to terminate the showing of the comedy film The Interview. The movie is about the CIA’s plan for killing North Korea’s current leader, Kim Jong-un. United States government officials allegedly say that it was North Korea that was the mastermind of the Sony Pictures’ hacking on December 17, 2014. In a formal statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that indeed the hacking was traced to North Korea.

Der Spiegel, a German weekly news magazine soon after unveiled a report from the NSA states that they have been interfering with North Korea’s cyberspace since 2010. The NSA said they were sure it was North Korea that caused the cyber hack. Labelled as “the most impenetrable targets on earth”, North Korea, over the years has become an imminent threat because of its developing capability. This is what caused the NSA to delve into penetrating their computer systems. In order to track computer and network activities of North Korean hackers, the NSA established a malware into their systems. Even the president, Barack Obama, who’s usually very watchful when trusting intelligence aides, believes that the facts from the evidence “early warning radar” are pointing on North Korea as the hackers of Sony Pictures. For the past ten years, without the knowledge of foreign adversaries, United States has embedded ‘beacons’ in their computer systems. Not only it contains surveillance software but these map networks contain destructive malware capabilities. The United States’ ability to execute such ways played an important part in collecting useful evidence on the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment (Sony