Sony Hack Archives

‘The Interview’ Brings in Over 1 Million Dollars on Christmas Day Release

Don’t tell Kim Jong Un, but the controversial movie, ‘The Interview’ was still released on December 25th, despite terrorist threats from The Supremes in North Korea. The movie, in case you still don’t know, is a comedy about the assassination of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un. And although the movie’s Christmas day release pales in comparison to other movie releases, Americans went to the theaters in clear defiant to the demands from North Korea.

Yes, North Korea actually had the balls to demand the movie not be shown here in America. The even invoked the threat of September 11th type attacks if the movie was shown. They really thought we would have cower and stay away from the theaters!

Variety predicts that this number may drop off due to The Interview‘s release on VOD, but it is better than no dollars, which is the amount Sony would have made had they gone through with the complete cancellation of the film thanks to hacker attacks possibly sponsored by North Korea. Many of the indie chains reported that their screenings were all completely sold out.

North Korea’s Internet Seems to be Under a Massive Cyber Attack

Something is happening with the North Korean internet system. Right now, there is no way to say what that something is, but whatever it is, North Korea’s internet service is suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory. And even more stranger is the fact that this massive outage comes just days after President Obama promised a “proportional response” to the North’s confirmed attack on Sony Entertainment.

“I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before,” said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at the cybsecurity firm Dyn Research, according to Martyn Williams of the excellent blog North Korea Tech. Madory explained, “Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.”

While it’s entirely possible that this is due to run-of-the-mill maintenance or technical issues, it’s hard to miss that the outage comes just days after President Obama condemned North Korea as responsible for the massive cyberattack against Sony and pledged a “proportional” US response. Two other cybersecurity firms confirmed to the New York Times that North Korea’s is collapsing amid an apparent cyber attack.