Basically threaten theaters that show Seth Rogen’s movie, The Interview with 9/11 type terror.
ETA: I’m guessing Homeland Security steps up their investigation efforts on this now.
Is the hacker a native speaker of English do you think, trying to make their English sound awkward, to cast suspicion on being of non-English speaking origin?
Could just be a group of college kids trying to be funny…
I think that we will ultimately find out at some point who is behind it.
That’s a good marketing campaign, pretend the studio is being threatened by “terrorists”, that way more people will consider seeing the movie as a sort of “screw you” to the supposed “terrorists”
It’s highly probable that absolutely nothing will happen anyway
Who knows, but if it is backed by North Korea this type of ridiculous, clunky, broken Engrish propaganda is typical of them, oh great leader who makes the Sun come up!! 
Yeah, I don’t want to make predictions but this sounds pretty hoaxy to me.
I thought it that was the State Concubine’s job.
Bigger picture view…
If this works, I see the dawning of a new age of warfare: Hackers for hire to overthrow your government by hacking the IRS and giving everyone a refund, bankrupting the corrupt regime.
Or less grandiose but still evil: we can’t beat our competition but we can hack and release all their company secrets to the internet and show how the CEO calls his customers “sheeple” and plays golf on the company’s private plane on Mondays.
If these hackers are not caught and made examples of, they get away with stopping or delaying a major movie release by hacking. And others will surely try and duplicate and then top that.
I am intrigued by this story and will be watching it closely.
That’d be one big airplane.
The threat won’t just negatively impact Sony and that particular movie, but all other movies that are out during that time. People will stay away from the theater itself, not just the particular screens that The Interview are showing on, during a time which is considered a high movie going time.
According to the article, at least three major chains and several smaller ones have decided not to show the move next week, although some have indicated that they might show it eventually. Other chains, including AMC, are still thinking it over.
I’ve read theories about it being a marketing campaign, but that does seem less and less likely, considering all the theaters that will no longer show the movie.
I agree that it’s highly probable that no terrorist attacks will happen. But what I am worried about happening is that it will affect movie studios willingness to make and release certain movies. If a movie like Team America World Police was being considered to make it now, the studio might get nervous and pull the plug.
The hackers are in North Korea, or possibly China. They may be outed, but not caught. There aren’t many movies that anybody would have motive to attack in this manner, but I won’t be surprised when copycat attacks pop up.
Ah. As discussed over here, Sony is pulling the 12/25 release.
I don’t think there’s an real evidence that these guys are from NK or China, aside from what some pundits are saying. Just a bunch of hacktivists having fun yanking Sony’s chain around. Probably threatened to release more mildly embarrassing emails if the didn’t pull the movie, just to see if they’d do it.
According to the Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf” (yeah, it’s the Dutch equivalent of the “Daily Mail”, but anyway…), “The Interview” will be premiered nationwide in The Netherlands on January 29, 2015, as planned.
Link (in Dutch): http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/23462129/__The_Interview_nu_te_zien_in_NL__.html
In Spain, the plans are still to premiere “The Interview” on February 13.
I guess that the US premiere will be delayed, but that it will be shown in the end.
I have a simple solution. Since it’s been hacked anyway release it to the public for free. The more they try to suppress it the more people will want to see it. Then download it to flash drives and give it away free to NK smugglers.
Shove it up their digital bum and rotate.
The New York Times is reporting that US intelligence has linked it to North Korea (mobile link) You actually thought it was anyone else?
According to some news reports out today, the US government now knows North Korea is behind these attacks. They aren’t sure if/when they will come forward with an accusation. Partly because (supposedly) the US doesn’t want to reveal details about its own cyberwar capabilities it used to find this out.
Time for another beer summit.