Cybersecurity incident — 2014-11-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation,Exploitation of End Hosts,Data Attack
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)

Threat actors compromised the networks of Sony Pictures Entertainment, destroyed data, and publicly released employee emails. The United States attributed the incident to North Korea, which is believed to have staged the attack to prevent Sony from releasing the film The Interview, which depicts an assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.