North Korea was behind the devastating hack attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI announced on Friday.
The FBI said in its statement: “North Korea’s actions were intended to inflict significant harm on a U.S. business and suppress the right of American citizens to express themselves. Such acts of intimidation fall outside the bounds of acceptable state behavior.”
The announcement confirmed mounting evidence that the North Korean dictatorship, incensed by a comedy that depicted the assassination of its leader Kim Jong-un, took the extraordinary move to attack a Hollywood studio and attempt to force the withdrawal of the movie.
The attack was crippling, and the attack succeeded, as Sony this week pulled “The Interview” from its scheduled Christmas Day release.