Sony Pictures, North Korea, Cyber-Attacks, and… Healthcare?

Healthcare Informatics: The U.S. news media have been filled with reports and commentary this week about the cyber-attack campaign against Sony Pictures, related to the anticipated release of a new film, “The Interview.” The story is a bit tangled, but in essence, someone or a group of someones hacked into the computer systems of Sony Pictures, leaking a huge amount of confidential, proprietary information about the company, including e-mails, information on upcoming movie projects, etc., and also wiping out a quantity of unspecified data on the company’s information systems.

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