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It Wasn't North Korea Or Russia: Sony Hack "Perpetrator" Said To Be Laid-Off, Disgruntled Employee
First it was, with "absolute certainly", North Korea. Then, out of the blue, an even more ridiculous theory emerged about the origin of the Sony hackers: Russia. Now, we finally get the truth, and as it turns out it was neither of the abovementioned sovereign actors who had nothing better to do than to hack movie scripts and racist emails: it was Sony's own disgruntled worker who was the source of the hack. According to Politico, FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator."
Researchers from the cyber intelligence company Norse have said their own investigation into the data on the Sony attack doesn’t point to North Korea at all and instead indicates some combination of a disgruntled employee and hackers for piracy groups is at fault.
But... but just a week ago the FBI was so absolutely certain it was North Korea it released the following statement:
Today, the FBI would like to provide an update on the status of our investigation into the cyber attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). In late November, SPE confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that destroyed systems and stole large quantities of personal and commercial data. A group calling itself the "Guardians of Peace" claimed responsibility for the attack and subsequently issued threats against SPE, its employees, and theaters that distribute its movies.
The FBI has determined that the intrusion into SPE's network consisted of the deployment of destructive malware and the theft of proprietary information as well as employees' personally identifiable information and confidential communications. The attacks also rendered thousands of SPE's computers inoperable, forced SPE to take its entire computer network offline, and significantly disrupted the company's business operations.
After discovering the intrusion into its network, SPE requested the FBI's assistance. Since then, the FBI has been working closely with the company throughout the investigation. Sony has been a great partner in the investigation, and continues to work closely with the FBI. Sony reported this incident within hours, which is what the FBI hopes all companies will do when facing a cyber attack. Sony's quick reporting facilitated the investigators' ability to do their jobs, and ultimately to identify the source of these attacks.
As a result of our investigation, and in close collaboration with other U.S. Government departments and agencies, the FBI now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions.
So will the humiliation ever end? Or does Obama have to launch a "preemptive" nuclear first in addition to taking down North Korea's internet and cell phone service before he too admits his false flag-based foreign policy is an epic disaster?
To be sure, the FBI says it is standing by its conclusions, "but the security community says they’ve been open and receptive to help from the private sector throughout the Sony investigation."
Norse’s senior vice president of market development said that just the quickness of the FBI’s conclusion that North Korea was responsible was a red flag.
“When the FBI made the announcement so soon after the initial hack was unveiled, everyone in the [cyber] intelligence community kind of raised their eyebrows at it, because it’s really hard to pin this on anyone within days of the attack,” Kurt Stammberger said in an interview as his company briefed FBI investigators Monday afternoon.
He said the briefing was set up after his company approached the agency with its findings.
Stammberger said after the meeting the FBI was “very open and grateful for our data and assistance” but didn’t share any of its data with Norse, although that was what the company expected.
The FBI said Monday it is standing behind its assessment, adding that evidence doesn’t support any other explanations.
Of course it is: otherwise it would look like a total idiot. It still will, but in time the FBI hopes nobody will remember this entire unfortunate embarrassing incident, and can just back away quietly with a small footnote explanation on page 18.
“When the FBI made the announcement so soon after the initial hack was unveiled, everyone in the [cyber] intelligence community kind of raised their eyebrows at it, because it’s really hard to pin this on anyone within days of the attack,” Kurt Stammberger said in an interview as his company briefed FBI investigators Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Norse is pretty adamant the FBI are a bunch of clowns:
"Whenever we see some indicators or leads that North Korea may be involved, when we follow those leads, they turn out to be dead ends,” Stammberger said. “Do I think it’s likely that [officials] have a smoking gun? … We think that we would have seen key indicators by now in our investigation that would point to the North Koreans: We don’t see those data points. So if they’ve got them, they should share some of them at least with the community and make a more convincing case.”
Bottom line: the hacker was a disgruntled employee, and the leaked email situation was promptly used by studio execs to dupe the idiot public into believing it was their sworn patriotic duty to watch a failed comedic flop, generating revenues of over $20 million for what would have been a total dud. Which is why expect none of this to get any media coverage.
In the meantime, Obama almost launched another war over yet another video. So generally par for the course, bad pun intended.
The humiliation, however, is that not only did North Korea troll Obama, it officially got the upper hand. End result, at least someone is having a laugh.

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I look forward to Obola's official apology
FBI are full of shit.
Why does anyone believe a single word the US government or its MSM says anymore?! I simply don't get it...
WACO:
remember the initial story put out by the FBI......
I wished they had made such an announcement over the weekend ... who knows how the markets might react,
The incompetnece of these guys is deafening.
If Obama had son that was an ex-Sony employee....
...he'd look like a disgruntled depressed narcissistic gay Jap hacker?
Now, get the fuck outta my way, I 'm busy golfing.
Lame..... unprofessional buncha fuckups.
Bengahzi YouTube crap video with ONLY 1,500 hits when I looked at it.
Now the Norks (who probably have better shit to do like pick grass to eat) than fuck with Sony over a dumb ass movie.
Then a systems security firm from McLean VA (hah!) claims its the Rooskies....
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor
Where do these people come from?
Just another laughable Obong fucktard event.
Two moar years of this fucking shit to go...
Will John McCain still declare war on the laid off Sony (former) employee?
Yeah yeah...but but...the disgruntled employee washed a few episodes of M*A*S*H in the 1980's and that's where he gained his motivation...so therefore it must be North Korea's fault.
MOAR WOAR.
As a staunch liberal, I am truly baffled here. We were so quick when finding out who attacked us on 9/11. How could we have possibly gotten this wrong? Or maybe we should just all chill and give our government more time to come up with more evidence against this North Korea-Russia hacking alliance.
Whodathunkit?
My thought? The Koreans did it, however the West knows it can do nothing without starting WIII. So blame it on this dude.
Who the fuck cares.... Franco, Obama, North Koreans can all go fuck themselves.
Folks, We Accused Some Folks...
Does anyone think maybe this hack job was done by the Osama-Assad-Putin-Ferguson Police Dept alliance that is paid for by Kim Jong-Un?
As a staunch liberal, I'd buy that.
The goddamned Ukrainian terrorists did it from inside Russian tanks, while shooting down civilian airliners using Syrian missiles.
Do I have to tell you everything?
Barry has egg on his face now.
“I look forward to Obola's official apology.”
The un-natural born citizen-in chief usurper should go over there and bow before the little-Un.
Actually, he will have to get on his knees to bring his increasingly grey head low enough and I can think of something else he can do while in that position.
Agent Lacey: "Don't fight that tiger!"
Apparently my mother did not give me enough hugs when I was a kid because I really enjoyed that film. I would enjoy having the writers/producers of that film working on my film project.
FGB
Where do the Iranians fit into this? Hezbollah and Hamas too?
What could possibly go wrong by acting on bad information and attacking another country? Oh well,what the hell, if we screw up and attack another country it couldn't happen to a worse group of scumbags. (I'm working to fit in with my neighbors, does that last sentence help?)
I wonder if they'll turn off NK's internet and cell phones a few more times...just to look even moar stupid.
Duh!
They'd do it to "cover" their tracks.
Time to round-up some Korean shop-keepers and send them to Gitmo for a few months of torture to see what they know.
You my friend are on the right page. Keep up the good work.
USrael. BIGGEST THREAT TO WORLD PEACE.
If the female, disgruntled, ex Sony employee is not contacting lawyers, she is nuts.
She just won the lottery....
Franco? He's STILL dead!
Small potatoes for this lie. They don't even have the balls to admit that aliens are flying in our skies.
Booyah and Bada Bang!
Ah, a man after my own heart.
Is that the UFO aliens or the Free Mexican Airforce shuttle into and out of Mena AK?
I think it's both.
Do you have any idea what the queers are doing to the soil?
Never laugh at a meglomaniac or a narcist....... they will reach out and hurt you.
Meglomaniac? Waaaaiiiiit.....
Franco and Rogane said he was a great guy with whom to party
To whom are you referring here, Kim Jon Un, or...
Meglomaniac? Waaaaiiiiit.....
Franco and Rogane said he was a great guy with whom to party
The Obamatron? :>D
Mexicans can fly now?
Radio waves (because this is where this thread is going).
I'm on a Mexican radio. I'm on a Mexican, whoa-Oh, radio
Wall Of Voodoo
why declare war when a drone strike will do?
Oh, like stupid flag-waving Muricans need a reason to bomb fuzzy foreigners. Obombya should just hold a presser and tell the people that we gonna bomb some bitches cuz dass wut we do up in here.
Manifest Destiny 2.0.... it's what exceptional nations do.
Don't blame me, I voted for Comacho! :>D
And this list is just with our strongest Allie.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/president-obamas-biggest-british-gaffe...
Imagine, if you will, (Rod Serling voice) a world that doesn't care for us so much...................
Mirror mirror on the wall who is the most loved of all? (grumble grumble)... Stupid mirror
If Obama had a Sony: Seth Grogan Obama.
on other news it seems there are about 500 billion to one trillion dollars invested on shale oil ... based on oil at 90-100 dollars ... what happens to derivatises (about 15% of all derivatives are in oil)
as if that is not enough Toyota is rumored to have discovered an hydrogen car ... no oil necessary.
well, all is well, at least after the greek elections ... LOL
What happens with the derivatives?
Big ass collateral and margin calls
Guess what the preferred collateral is?
Government bonds, bills and notes.
Go figure.
toyota's hydrogen powered car will for sure meet it's untimely demise before it ever really sees the light of day..
maybe it will be discovered it fails the nailgun resistance test.
if they got it, chances are others are not far beyond ... in such a case, you can hold the tide until the insiders unload, which might have already been accomplished...,. since the word is coming to the ears of commonors down here ...
that BS with shale oil from texas to canada probably was going to be the final nail to the whatever little competition remains (environmentalist saved them),but no worries, they will get them..
Toyota has been working on a fuel cell powered vehicle for years - no big discovery there. No magic either: it takes energy (electric grid) to isolate hydrogen (by breaking down water) for fuel.
agree, but the "magic" is in the source "reallocation"
that electricity from the grid, for example, could come from a microturbine attached to the city NatGas network coming for example from a pipeline from Russia, or directly from a wind turbine from the Baltic Sea, or a French nuclear reactor
have a look at one of those hideously complex source -> flow/transportation/transformation -> end use of energy charts
Once you go electric it's literally a free lunch, dammit! Conservation of mass and energy are defeated for good and entropy decreases from there on out.
if that is the case, then is when they decided to pull the plug .... same with pm, nothing new, however as they say mr. market remains irrational longer than you remain insolvent ..someday they will pull the plague.
interestingly though, a couple of years ago,i saw an interview of Peres in Charlie Rose, and someone from NY who was the CEO of some company .. tha plan was Israel by 2017 would have about 70% cars running on electricity of smt like that ... the company was I think NISSAN, they had that iranian name guy ...
anyway it seems games have already began although Armstrong is predictably "predicting" later in the year ...
And where do they get the electricity? By burning all the oil that suddenly becomes cheap.
Daimler Benz worked on hydrogen Fuel Cell tech long before the Japs did. They put it on the shelf until the 'Market' would be ready.
The 'Market' won't be ready until it is forced to be ready. Alternatively, at the voluntary level, it won't be ready until the Delivery infrastructure is in place, and that is something that is driven by the Gasoline giants.
no oil necessary
Um, hydrogen is just a storage media for chemical energy. You have to first produce hydrogen, which is an energy intensive process. There is also a lot of REALLY complicated engineering, especially with liquid hydrogen*. While I will admit it is a bit more efficient/less polluting to generate power centrally, we are talking about a complete rework of our energy distribution network - everything from storage to tanker transports, to the pump. That will all be hugely energy intensive and vastly outweigh the savings for a loooooooong time if ever. It will also mean more generating capacity demand, so more coal/nuke plants and beefier distribution networks. Bottom line is that you are just changing where the oil is consumed from the car to the power plant with conversion losses along the way.
* Fun fact: liquid hydrogen has such a high surface tension it will actually "crawl" out of a container. Talk about engineering nightmares.
Honestly, if politicians would just outlaw a few of Newton's Laws everything could be so much more efficient. /<humor>
Why not, they've already done away with the laws of "Economics" and common sense!
The Russians have duplicated Rossi's Hot Cat.
http://lenr.seplm.ru/novosti/aleksadr-parkhomov-povtoril-opyt-a-rossi
"Toyota is rumored to have"
Oh great, another car that runs on rumors.
The incompetnece of these guys is deafening.
It wasn't incompetence, but something more evil.
It's not about discovering what really happened, it's about using what happened to their own ends. Only silly people expect the truth about anything.
I'm afraid this is not incompetence. People are quick to dismiss this as incompetence. The same "incompetence" that is now used as excuse for the criminal Iraq invasion. I still recall Powell at UN with his white powder vessels... this is not incompetence! Even if it was - who is responsible?! Where the fuck is some accountability?! I mean - FFS, millions of people have died as a result of this "incompetence"... what an absolute disgrace!
Another crisis wasted. Somebody in the US Dept. of False Flags dropped the ball again.
Who Investigate when you can just Incriminate?
FBI: the Federal Bureau of Incriminations.
Unfortunately there's still people in line fighting for freedom by watching this movie.
There was a rumor that Sony was giving away Air Jordans for the first 100 folks who watched this train wreck.
pods
"But, but, but our Axis of Evil® dart board is never wrong!"
Ignorance and/or denial.
Why do we need The State at all? It's only talents are lies, theft, and murder.
You know, I've actually stopped watching/listening to MSM a while ago. I mean I do try to follow it so that I KNOW what they're saying, but I must say the quality of the MSM reporting over the past few years has fallen DRAMATICALLY - it's actually pretty scary shit... I watched some BBC the other night, - boy, they were talking about Russia... I had a good laugh. Objective repoting my ass - I've never witnessed more biased shit.
SofaPapa,
the FBI assumes everyone is guilty of something.
Further, they are so used to using informants to set up their targets, and lying on the stand, that doing real police detective work requires too much effort and skill
Hey, c'mon, their forensic crime lab agreed with the Axis of Evil® dart board.
http://rt.com/usa/176744-fbi-forensic-lab-review/
It's a good thing people believe that TV shows like CSI reflect reality.
Quite the holiday avatar Latina
From my college days, she reminds me of a casual acquaintance in Acapulco and a bottle of Mezcal...
Does one have a "casual aquaintance" with a bottle of Mezcal? :>D
Don't be too hard on the FBI. Orginally they had a diffrent story, basically saying they weren't sure. And that quickly changed to North Korea. Like all Gov't agencies under the Federal Gov't they get thier orders from the Obama Administration. I know people in DHS and FBI (lower levels) but they say that the common thought amoungst the ranks is that Obamas appointees as well as his administration are and I am paraphrasing here "out of thier minds".
This! The lower ranks or even the higher ranks WITHIN the US military-security system are our ONLY hope. These are the people who understand things very clearly, what the actual dangers of present disastrous policies are as they have more info than most of us and they are the ones who can stop this madness. Sorry, but I don't buy the "everyone is on their payroll" angle - there are still SANE HONEST people out there who care about humanity.
The FBI?
But aren't they represented well by that neocon congress-swine who just resigned, Grimm, a former feeb who is both corrupt and just threatened the life of a news?
Didn't the fearless FBI put away the super-criminal, Martha Stewart?
And wasn't their fearless neocon leader, Director James Comey, formerly on the board of directors of the US Chamber of Commerce's legal attack arm, the National Chamber Litigation Center?
FBI, where credibility (used to be)/is our middle name!
Perhaps they should stick to finding the "10 most-wanted."
This story doesn't suit the foreign policy agenda or the Zeitgeist. Please rewrite until you get it right!!
Call Justice Roberts....he's pretty good at rewrites.
So, the same disgruntled employee has been taking down the Internet and Cell Phone grids in NK? Our counter-attack on NK was obviously ordered by the "Monkey" with no real evidence? That is seriously fucked up.
Monkey. In a Tropical Jungle. With a hand grenade.
Monkey reaches inside the bottle and grabs the pineapple. He 'ain't letting go. Our bit of string pulls the pin on said pineapple. Oh joy.
HNY to all.
Obolla and his buddies in the Blackhand got us good that time. They had me believing it for about 40 seconds until I remembered they already did a test run at Sony a few months ago when they first blamed NK for a hack. I wonder if JWO is now "hacking' credit card files and doing a scam with banks?
This incident has virtualy nothing to do with Obama. Its another power and money grabbing ploy by the Deep State . . .
http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
Apology is not in their vocabulary. And like Cheney, they will all just keep insisting they were right based upon the available shitty data.
Bunch of fucking two byte carpet turds practicing forensic propaganda.
Nice asses....
Is that a trash bag Obama is standing in?
You know that anything coming out of dat azz can only be one thing.
And guys, sorry to harsh your buzz, but can you imagine getting it on with, you know, it? All slick and ready boys. But ya gotta keep your eyes open.
We sold some movie tickets to some folks
me laid off employee... me play joke...
So the same Genius's prosecuting Silk Road can't figure out who the Hacker is before shooting off their mouth.
I wonder if that will help the defense for Silk road ?
All in line with the rest of the SHITSHOW. Real Class Act is Vichy DC.
it was Russia any way...
OT
WTF is going on with Gold and Silver this morning? They are getting unhammered. Some PHd hit the buy button by mistake.
A preview of 2015? Also, this story whether true or not proves the old maxim: "Always be kind to your employees, as they have the ability to destroy or at least wound you."
You got that right. But in the bankster industry risky former employees get special transition assistance - like home improvement and flying lessons.
The life insurance policies, for death in service, make them self funding terminations.
I don't know but one of the gold guys interviewed on Kitco said it would close out higher for year-end.
Looks like somebody is testing the elasticity of NYMEX Rule 589.
I thought that the US taxpayer was paying the NSA a fortune to know everything that is going on in the Internet. Oooops!
Looks like another myth, bit like 'stealth' planes, bites the dust. Maybe the US is not all powerful.
Lot of wasted borrowed money going down here.
I think they knew exactly what was going on and when. But it was much more profitable to blame NK, and the head of Sony pictures apparently has the clout to pull the puppet's strings when otherwise Sony would have faced an embarassing loss on a stupid project. The level of banality our government has reached is stunning.
No, the US taxpayer is paying the NSA to monitor ordinary citizens for the control freaks in DC. They don't care about false flags, massive government theft, etc. They're more concerned about what you read, buy, believe, etc. Goons for whomever is in power. They should change the name to National Snitch Agency.
We've disgruntled some folks.
But seriously, this is beyond pathetic. FBI just picks targets from a politically correct straw hat.
This will surely go into history books as the best corporate media campaign that taxpayers money can buy.
Yeah.....FBI, CDC, NEA, EPA.....same damn thing.
In true checkers fashion, Obama already exposed all of the backdoors and techniques we would use in a real war...for his own hubris. Don't expect any of those hacks to work on Russia or even NK within a few months. Good Job Obama. Putin went to Chess school while you smoked pot. And it shows.
Once again Obama sticking his nose where it should not be.
"We tricked some folk's".
Just goes to show that the Media is now as polluted as the Fiat; its a roller coaster ride now to find out who is pulling the strings behind the curtain.
The Medium is the message; and it stinks to high heaven.
The MSM will bury this news, and the iZombies will go on believing that NK was responsible. They are after all a part of the Axis of Evil.
Nationalism. It's what's for dinner.
I've been out of the loop for a while. Were the NK threats of terrorism if the movie was shown in theatres also invented out of thin air? I seem to recall that was part of the origina story.
I'm so confused. I don't know which lies I should believe any more.
The NK threats were in response to the US blaming NK.
The original demand that the movie not be shown came from the hackers themselves, i.e. the Sony insider. Proably looking for a convenient, obvious, scapegoat. I believe there was a demand for money too, but I cannot find the originl story.
Ah, that's right. How quickly I forget.
So, the original narrative was complete and total bullshit from the get-go. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
The original demand from the hackers was for money to stop the release of embarrassing information.
I think this security firm will soon receive an NSA letter New Year greeting....
But look on the bright side - no matter how this thing turns out The Interview made more money than it probably would. And that is good for the economy right?
This is what happens if Hollywood is in charge of your foreign policy. Hey Chris mental f#cking Dodd?
Never let a politically expedient narrative go to waste.
It was a real hack, but an inside job.
Sony knew it would be expensive and embarrassing.
Sony worked with US gov. to assign blame since they are pals.
Sony wants the US gov. to pay for the cost of the hack as a terrorist attack.
US gov. wanted an excuse to do some backdoor hacking of N.K. on their own.
See, less complicated than anyone thought.
Yes, the truth is always stranger than fiction.
Bring back Mulder and Scully (The last professional FBI agents).
Well, "the Truth is out there..." :>D
everything "they" say is a lie
That means Sony are terrorists?
No. Just morons...
Well, at least our pervasive SigInt surveillance apparatus was able to promptly uncover the actual culprit, and facilitate his prosecution before our government did anything provocative to those who were not involved. Otherwise, we might have tried to provoke war, or something.
yeah, "inside job" done by their risk management/accounting division when they realized they had a DUD on their hands. they then pulled this BS circus stunt knowing they could pull the clown-in-chief into the mix (since he never decides to act on facts) rather emotion (especially when u fugg with his buddies in hollywood). soooo, mission accomplished and the "inside job employee" will be released with a swiss bank account = to 10-20% of the movies gross since it was going to gross 0 before the sheeple deemed it their "patriotic duty" to go see this jackass of a movie.
Pantomime season extended for another 3 months due to unforeseen demand.
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FBI and THEIR LIES
and who shut down the internet in N Korea ? cuz that was a real crime
somehow all the sheeple forgot about that WTF
A Monkey did it, Probably Micky Dolenz, he's always starting something.
Peter Tork, it's always the quiet ones.
Cliche of the day: Still waters run deep.
Don't worry, I've contacted the ADL about the blatant racism coming from the Sony management team
Disgusting the way the TRIBE acts.........
Our government is incompetent. If you're not in the US, your government is incompetent too.
FBI? Keystone cops, I swear. They should just stick to doing stuff they have the skills for, like setting people up so they can bust them for attempted terrorism. Oh, wait...
The circuits that cannnot be cut are cut automatically in response to a terrorist incident. You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the FBI. [/Hans Gruber]
Fat finger Chrome OS
Sony hacked Sony for 15 mil. The world laughs at Washington D.C. and the NWO
YeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaa
What a waste! Everything was so perfectly convenient for another wave of Western propaganda.
Bath House: "Our sources inform us it uh, err, was a laid-off North Korean Employee!"
I wonder how some of those New Yorkers are feeling now after doing "the patriotic thing" last week?
I'll answer that, they will probably never even realize that this was the case, along with all the other dumb fucks that watched the movie for the same reason.
Last week?? What is this "last week" you speak of? That went off my twitter feed like years ago. And my facebook? I don't think this "last week" exists. I can't find it, anyway...
Euhh.. Just bring some guy out to ease the publicity damage. We have seen it all with the banks.
I have a thoery: maybe the FBI did on purpose to help so that sheeple will run to see it, after all it did generate $20M
There were reports of US government people "consulting" with Sony on this film. Wonder if any taxpayer money helped fund it?
sure why not? the .gov grants millions to produce anti-cop rap videos to instigate a race war. they want the people fighting each other and the police rather than them.
Nelson - ha ha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOPBP9vuZA
Finally making sense
Never was reason to believe a rogue nation had motive to hack a frikken Japanese movie studio, let alone beleive this was "an act of war"
But I guess O'Damn ya figured his flock was as dumb as ever
Next he'll tell us he receives orders directly from his divine golf club, requiring him to spend more time on the links
All this reminds me of one of the great oxymorons of all times......FBI INTELLIGENCE !
They are cops. What else do you need to know?
Even worse, they are the elite cops.