A new round of leaked Sony emails revealed executives have been aware of a security breach in the company’s systems since February.
Communications obtained by Gawker from Courtney Schaberg, the studio’s VP of content protection, detailed a compromised server.
“An SPE system may have been obtained by an unauthorized party, who then may have uploaded malware,” Schaberg wrote in an email dated February 12, 2014. Staffers addressed on the email, including Sony chief counsel Leah Weil, were told “the investigation is ongoing.”
Schaberg followed up her note with confirmation that server data was indeed taken — from SpiritWORLD, a third party company subcontracted by Sony to store innumerable documents relating to finance, distribution and more.