Hackers send e-mail to Sony employees threatening their families

[ObscureMammal]

Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/hackers-send-e-mail-to-sony-employees-threatening-their-families/

             http://variety.com/2014/film/news/hackers-threaten-sony-employees-in-new-email-your-family-will-be-in-danger-1201372230/

 

 

On Friday Sony Pictures Entertainment employees received an e-mail from the hackers threatening their families, according to an insider at Sony, employees were told to turn off their phones after receiving the message.

 

"We understand that some of our employees have received an email claiming to be from GOP,"  a Sony spokesman said in a statement, “We are aware of the situation and are working with law enforcement”

 

The FBI released a statement following Friday’s email: 

The FBI is aware of threatening emails that have been received by some employees at Sony Pictures Entertainment, We continue to investigate this matter in order to identify the person or group responsible for the recent attack on the Sony Pictures network. Recent events underscore the persistence and maliciousness of harmful cyber criminals, and the FBI will continue to identify and apprehend those who pose a threat in cyberspace.

 

 

The e-mail sent by hackers:

I am the head of GOP who made you worry.

 

Removing Sony Pictures on earth is a very tiny work for our group which is a worldwide organization. And what we have done so far is only a small part of our further plan.It’s your false if you if you think this crisis will be over after some time. All hope will leave you and Sony Pictures will collapse. This situation is only due to Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures is responsible for whatever the result is. Sony Pictues clings to what is good to nobody from the beginning. It’s silly to expect in Sony Pictures to take off us. Sony Pictures makes only useless efforts. One beside you can be our member.

 

Many things beyond imagination will happen at many places of the world. Our agents find themselves act in necessary places. Please sign your name to object the false of the company at the email address below if you don’t want to suffer damage. If you don’t, not only you but your family will be in danger.

 

Nobody can prevent us, but the only way is to follow our demand. If you want to prevent us, make your company behave wisely.

[ThyFeared]

What the fuck is the point of them doing this....

[upliftsleet1974]

Wow kinda sounds like terrorists.  ISIS?

 

To bad the US government will do nothing but keep on spying on its citizens and not trying to defend them from stuff like this..It really is a shame. 

[sqwidee]

Either the meaning was lost in translation, or the hackers can't write for shit. lol

[Jaybird]

So what did sony do that has this group up in arms?

[Tech_Dreamer]

[Lazmarr]

The e-mail sent by hackers:

Sounds like a 13 year old wrote it, no offence but it doesn't sound like GOP sent this...especially since GOP = Guardians Of Peace and "danger to families" isn't peaceful.

Also the files contained a list of sony emails, anybody who downloaded it could've sent emails claiming to be GOP.

 

Edit: not you, the email sent by the hackers...

[Laputacake]

Wow kinda sounds like terrorists.  ISIS?

 

To bad the US government will do nothing but keep on spying on its citizens and not trying to defend them from stuff like this..It really is a shame.

My thoughts exactley

[flibberdipper]

This is just bullshit.

[Guest Kloaked]

Wow kinda sounds like terrorists. ISIS?

To bad the US government will do nothing but keep on spying on its citizens and not trying to defend them from stuff like this..It really is a shame.

I'm glad this turned into a needless conspiracy thread.

[Jobbe03]

If the NSA is smart, now is the time they set an example and prove their shit works.

[LAwLz]

Sounds like a 13 year old wrote it, no offence but it doesn't sound like GOP sent this...especially since GOP = Guardians Of Peace and "danger to families" isn't peaceful.

Also the files contained a list of sony emails, anybody who downloaded it could've sent emails claiming to be GOP.

 

Edit: not you, the email sent by the hackers...

Yeah it sounds unlikely that it was GOP that sent that out. Also, how come we still don't know their demands!? That should have been the first thing published.

[Guest]

I highly doubt these people are a threat when my 13 year old sister can speak English better than them.

[MLG Doge]

I highly doubt these people are a threat when my 13 year old sister can speak English better than them.

It was probably translated from the original language.

 

i could be wrong.

[upliftsleet1974]

I'm glad this turned into a needless conspiracy thread.

Wow. To say this is a conspiracy is being very blind to facts. (The isis thing was a joke)

 

And the NSA doing nothing but spying on its own people is a true fact.

[ObscureMammal]

Sounds like a 13 year old wrote it, no offence but it doesn't sound like GOP sent this...especially since GOP = Guardians Of Peace and "danger to families" isn't peaceful.

Also the files contained a list of sony emails, anybody who downloaded it could've sent emails claiming to be GOP.

 

Edit: not you, the email sent by the hackers...

I agree the threats are not "peaceful", but the initial hack and release of the information isn't exactly a peaceful act either.

[Deli]

I highly doubt these people are a threat when my 13 year old sister can speak English better than them.

The hackers are a bunch of North Koreans who can't speak shit. If the story is true that they stole 100TB of data from Sony. This shit is far from over.

[frostin1990]

It's holiday season and this sounds like  some rival studio might be involved...i mean why sony? Funny how corporate media tries to spin this and blame north korea...

[Razarza]

I'm glad this turned into a needless conspiracy thread.

But it didn't, that was one post out of the many others related to the topic.

[Plasma]

this is a way to destabilize internally and fracture the moral. someone is trying to tear sony apart they are doing a good job at doing this themselves thought with a loss in the billions

[upliftsleet1974]

But it didn't, that was one post out of the many others related to the topic.

It was also just an opinion. And a statement of someones views.

 

So many butt hurt liberals. 

 

I am sure I will get hate now but that kinda proves my point.

[Yoinkerman]

this is a way to destabilize internally and fracture the moral. someone is trying to tear sony apart they are doing a good job at doing this themselves thought with a loss in the billions

It's a faster way to have every major police agency in the world kicking in your door with helicopters and not asking questions before they shoot.

[Master Disaster]

I highly doubt these people are a threat when my 13 year old sister can speak English better than them.

Sure, cause no non native English speaking person ever harmed another person.

[Guest]

Sure, cause no non native English speaking person ever harmed another person.

Considering the fact they need to figure out where these families live, no, I don't think so. Not while being so deficient in English.

[Lord Baal]

If the NSA is smart, now is the time they set an example and prove their shit works.

But it doesn't work also Sony isn't an american based company so I don't think they should even try to do a damn thing about it or once again America just comes off as trying to police the world.