Sony threatens Twitter with suit

Combination of file images shows Sony Pictures Entertainment chiefs Michael Lynton dated November 18, 2014 in Tokyo and Amy Pascal dated March 6, 2007 in Beverly Hills California. Sony Pictures has threatened Twitter with legal action unless it removes confidential material stolen from the movie company’s computers that someone has posted on the social networking site. FILE PHOTO  

In Summary

• A group calling itself Guardians of Peace” took credit for infiltrating Sony Pictures’ computer systems in retribution for plans to release the film “The Interview”, which mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
• The hackers destroyed numerous Sony computer files and published several embarrassing emails containing unflattering remarks about movie stars and confidential celebrity pay information.

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LOS ANGELES

Sony Pictures has threatened Twitter with legal action unless it removes confidential material stolen from the movie company’s computers that someone has posted on the social networking site.

The threat is the latest fallout from the hacking of the movie studio, which United States officials have blamed on North Korea.

A group calling itself Guardians of Peace” took credit for infiltrating Sony Pictures’ computer systems in retribution for plans to release the film “The Interview”, which mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.

The hackers destroyed numerous Sony computer files and published several embarrassing emails containing unflattering remarks about movie stars and confidential celebrity pay information.

Some of that material now has been posted on Twitter, said an attorney for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), David Boies, in a December 22 letter to the company’s lawyer, demanding that it be removed.

“Someone using the Twitter account name: @bikinirobotarmy is in possession of, and is using this Twitter account to publish SPE’s stolen documents and information,” Boies said in a copy of the letter posted on the Scribd.com website.