FBI blames N. Korea for Sony hacking 미 ′소니 해킹은 북한 소행′...강력 대응 시사

The FBI has formally blamed North Korea for the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures. President Obama says the U.S. will respond to the attack and added the studio had made a mistake by shelving a movie that depicts the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Hwang Sung-hee reports. The FBI says North Korea is directly responsible for the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures, which had forced the moviemaker to cancel the release of the movie "The Interview." In a statement Friday, the bureau said it had enough information to conclude the North Korean government was responsible. Its conclusion is based on similarities between past cyber attacks by North Korea and a technical analysis of the data deletion malware that revealed links to other malware previously developed by the North. The FBI called it an unacceptable act of state-sponsored intimidation, to which President Barack Obama vowed a "proportional" response. "We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States." In a year-end press conference, President Obama said Sony Pictures made a mistake in shelving "The Interview," a comedy film about an assassination plot on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that was set to be hit cinema screens on Christmas Day. Following threats of additional attacks, major movie theater chains backed out from showing the film, prompting Sony to cancel its release. Sony CEO Michael Lynton told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that his studio was still looking for alternative ways to show the movie, but it had not found one willing distributor. "There has not been one major VOD -- video-on-demand distributor -- one major e-commerce site that has stepped forward and said they are willing to distribute this movie for us." The FBI's statement marks the first time Washington has directly accused another country of a cyber attack of this scale... raising the possibility of a fresh confrontation between the two longtime foes. Hwang Sung-hee, Arirang News.