2001. now they ve got the threats against anyone. if you see the movie, be careful. they re threatening the families of sony employees. this has taken hacking to a level we ve never seen before. this week a leaked scene of the movie was shown. something the country condemns a as an act of war. we re told that the strong suspension that is that the reclusive country is the understand gator of the hack and possibly outsourced it to a group elsewhere as retaliation. the fbi is scrubbing sony s computer system trying to gather enough evidence to be able to definitively point the finger at the hacking culprit. sit a complex nuance investigation. they ve gone through multiple infrastructure to get to where they ve gotten to. it s not something that sony is going to solve in a day or a week or a month. in fact, it could take
movie chain to pull the plug from their more than 270 theaters across more than 40 states. landmark theaters also bailing, canceling thursday s premiere in new york. even the film s star, seth rogan and james franco dropping out of all media appearances this week. this fear in the movie industry prompted by a new threatening american, purportedly by the sony hackers. the fbi investigating their promise of a bitter fate to anyone who sees the controversial north korean comedy. the message says soon all the world will see what an awful movie sony pictures entertainment has made. the world will be full of fear. remember the 11th of september 2001. now they ve got threats against people who go see the movie. be careful. they re threatening the families of sony employees. this has taken hacking to a level that we ve never seen before. this week, a leaked scene from the film was posted, showing the gruesome assassination of north korean
this warning comes from a group known as the guardians of peace, saying that the film that centers around the assassination plot against north korean leader kim jong-un says they, the world will be full of fear. remember the 11th of september, 2001. we recommend to you keep yourself distant from the places at all times. other threats included in that, forcing theaters to cancel the premiere. sony canceled the appearances of the actors. just to give you background, for the last couple weeks we ve been talking about the hack job noose sony, health accounts, all private things that never should have been public by the same group that we think has some linkage to north korea because they were so outraged about a comedy in which their premiere, who is a brutal dictator like his father and his grandfather, get killed. so he s warning them not to release it. guess what? they canceled all their interviews. they ve canceled their premiere. and some different theaters are considering canceling
the north korean comedy. the interview set to release christmas day. this message says soon all the world will see what an awful movie sony pictures entertainment has made. the world will be full of fear. remember the 11th of september, 2001? we ve learned the department of homeland security is assessing the threat s credibility. sources say they re looking into this. similar to how they would investigate a bomb threat. in reality it is unlikely the actual hack here s are thought to be outside the u.s. will do any harm here. at home the concern is that it could inspire people to call in a threat or act out in some way. meantime, multiple law enforcement sources i ve spoken to stay strong suspicion is that north korea is the instigator and the hack is outsourced to a group as retaliation for the controversial film. we know the fbi is closing in on who the hacker is. the fbi is scrubbing the system to get enough evidence to point the finger at the hacking culprit. these investigations co
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