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by overfeed 89 days ago
> Now, I don't think many orgs would be up to it, but perhaps the bigger orgs in the US might quietly fight back

Sony's movie division financed a movie North Korea disapproved of, and DPRK retaliated[1] by hacking Sony Pictures and released executive salaries, emails, private employee information, unreleased movies, scripts, and set loose wiper malware on Sony Pictures' internal network. Sony was also forced to cancelled the theatrical release because there were threats of terrorist attacks at theaters that showed the film.

"Hacking back" is not a great strategy for most companies, except those that were already juicy targets and are battle-tested against state actors. But what do I know, I'm no fancy CSO.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sony_Pictures_hack