Remember those Sony emails that got a lot of people in trouble? Well, things may be about to get uglier for the electronics giant after WikiLeaks dumped 276,000 new documents.
WikiLeaks has just dumped 276,394 new documents from the Sony Pictures hack that could provide a huge amount of new embarrassment for the Japanese megacorporation.
These documents are in addition to 30,000 documents that WikiLeaks published back in April, and they were announced on Thursday via Twitter by WikiLeaks, which said “Sony Files Part 2–276,394 more docs,” according to a Japan Today report.
The documents are in the public interest, WikiLeaks argues, because of Sony’s deep ties to the White House and its ability to impact law and policies, as well as its connections to the Pentagon.
Sony Pictures was famously the target of a massive cyberattack back in the fall that resulted in the shutdown of its computer network and the release of embarrassing emails. It eventually led to the controversial film “The Interview” being pulled from theaters. Pyongynag denied responsibility for the hack even though the White House officially blamed them.
The revelations led to the resignation of chairperson Amy Pascal after exchanging racially insensitive jokes about President Barack Obama in some of hte emails.
Sony, of course, condemned the new document dump as a reckless exposure of private information.
Wikileaks is an international non-profit organization that aims to expose secret information and other classified data as provided by anonymous sources with the intent of preventing governments from keeping secrets from their people. The website was created in 2006 in Iceland and had 1.2 million documents in its database when it launched. Julian Assange is the controversial figurehead behind the organization, an Australian who is currently hiding out at the Embassy of Ecuador in London where he has been since 2012 ever since faced with extradition to Sweden to face what he says are trumped up charges.