Late 2014. Sony Pictures was hyping up The Interview — a wild, satirical comedy about assassinating Kim Jong-un. Yep, that Kim Jong-un.
The movie was supposed to be funny. What followed... wasn’t.
November 24th, 2014 — Sony employees fired up their work computers only to be greeted by a red skull flashing on-screen. A sinister message followed, signed by a group calling themselves the Guardians of Peace:
"We’ve obtained all your internal data. Release the movie... and we’ll expose everything."
And, oh, they meant everything.
Within days, the digital floodgates burst:
The glitz and glam of Hollywood? Stripped bare. And it wasn’t pretty.
The hackers upped the stakes: threats of violence were sent to theaters scheduled to show The Interview. Fear took hold. Major chains pulled the film. Sony canceled the premiere.
Eventually, U.S. intelligence pointed fingers straight at North Korea. This wasn’t just cybercrime — it was cyber retaliation.
The hack showed just how fragile the industry’s digital backbone really was. Billion-dollar projects halted. Studios panicked. Executives scrambled to contain the fallout.
“In an age where storytelling can provoke state-sponsored revenge... who decides what’s safe to say?”
Sony bled over $100 million. But the deeper wound was reputational:
This wasn’t just about one company. It shook the entire entertainment world.
The Sony hack wasn’t just a cyberattack — it was a warning shot. And we’re left asking:
If one movie sparked a digital war… what happens when the next line is crossed?
Hollywood learned the hard way that when the wrong people are offended, the fallout isn’t a bad review — it’s a full-blown siege.
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