WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said Sony Pictures “made a mistake” in pulling the satirical film “The Interview” after suffering a devastating cyber attack blamed on North Korea. “I wish they (Sony) would have spoken to me first,” Obama said at a news conference. “I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.'”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Pictures said on Friday it is looking for alternatives to release “The Interview” after it scrapped the Christmas Day theatrical opening of the screwball comedy at the center of a cyber attack on the studio blamed on North Korea.
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Faced with the most destructive cyber attack of a company on U.S. soil, President Barack Obama resorted to humor to explain an absurd plot that even Hollywood did not see coming.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Pictures said on Friday it is looking for alternatives to release “The Interview” after it scrapped the Christmas Day theatrical opening of the screwball comedy at the center of a cyber attack on the studio blamed on North Korea.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that North Korea acted alone when hacking Sony Pictures.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton on Thursday did not call for Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Amy Pascal to step down over racially insensitive emails, despite expectations that he might seek her resignation.