reporting. and you heard in her report how sony executives described the hacking as an act of terrorism. but should the company have been better prepared? to learn about past cyber attacks on sony, will ripley joins me from tokyo. you have reported on this. will? >> reporter: yeah, just within the last couple years, three years ago, actually, 2011, sony was the target of a huge hack where some tens of millions of people had their personal information basically put out there. their user names, their pass words. and just a couple of months later, sony pictures was hacked, and another 150,000 people had their information leaked. but up until this point, natalie, it was always people consider hacking a leak of personal information, pass words, destructive, but nothing like the attack that has really brought sony to its knees. hidden behind security doors and bulletproof glass, a set that