After a few days after the last reports that Sony Pictures have been hacked by a group called #GOP or Guardians of Peace, another Jailbrake issue was spreading online, which points North Korea as the one to blame!
As first reported by Re/code, the entertainment group investigates the possibility that North Korean hackers are the ones responsible for Sony's company-wide computer outage. Though North Korea has declined to deny its involvement in the incident and even implicit that "more attacks are planned".
Asked whether Pyongyang was involved in the cyber assault against Sony Pictures Entertainment, a spokesman for North Korea's mission to the United Nations would only say "wait and see," according to reports on website Voice of America.
"The hostile forces are relating everything to the DPRK [North Korea]," the spokesman said. "I kindly advise you to just wait and see."
The attack came a month before Sony Pictures is expected to release The Interview- a comedy film starring James Franco and Seth Rogan, television journalists who are sent to North Korea to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which is due to hit cinema screens in North America on December 25.
Over the summer, an unofficial North Korea spokesman told The Telegraph that The Interview "shows the desperation of the U.S. government and American society."
Additionally, North Korea reacted furiously in June when it was first announced that Sony would release a comedy movie titled "The Interview".
Initially scheduled to be released in October, the film stars Seth Rogan and James Franco as
Pyongyang quickly censured the film as the work of "gangster moviemakers", with North Korean state media adding that the storyline is "a wanton act of terror" that warranted "merciless countermeasures" unless it was cancelled.
This is not the first time North Korea is the one blamed: In April 2013, South Korea blamed its northern relative for a cyber-attack that crippled banks and TV stations in the country. Then, weeks before, North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr accounts were hacked-reportedly as part of Anonymous's efforts to disrupt the country's Web presence.
