The “Guardians of Peace” or #GOP, the hacker group behind the unprecedented cyber attack on Sony Pictures that started on the 24th of November, have released a second round of private information stolen from the company’s servers. The management of the media company has apparently refused to comply with the group’s demands, posted on GitHub, leading to the disclosure of even more sensitive data. The message reads as follows:
We have already given our clear demand to the management team of SONY, however, they have refused to accept.
It seems that you think everything will be well, if you find out the attacker, while no reacting to our demand.
We are sending you our warning again.
Do carry out our demand if you want to escape us.
And, Stop immediately showing the movie of terrorism which can break the regional peace and cause the War!
You, SONY & FBI, cannot find us.
We are perfect as much.
The destiny of SONY is totally up to the wise reaction & measure of SONY.
The message is followed by links to a second round of data posted on a series of anonymous file sharing services around the internet. This time the hackers publicly demand Sony Pictures to stop showing what they call “the movie of terrorism” which, they claim, can “break the regional peace and cause the war” – they are most likely referring to “The Interview”, an action comedy revolving around an assassination attempt on North Korea’s leader. The group has also declined to have anything to do with the threatening emails recently sent to Sony Pictures’ employees.
The data package released by the “Guardians of Peace” is a 400 megabyte packed file. The group has released it through several file sharing services, but most of them have already deleted the file or blocked user access to it.