The damage caused by the cyber attack on the Japanese film company Sony Pictures is fully reimbursed by the insurer. Therefore, the company does not cost savings. That CEO Michael Lynton tonight let you know.
How high are the costs exactly, Lynton is not to say. Experts plotting the damage at $ 100 million (about 85 million).
Late last year, Sony computers were hacked. US being quickly with the finger at North Korea. The communist country would have the cyber attack perpetrated because of the film ‘The Interview’, in which the CIA plot to murder the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
After threatening the company wanted the comedy initially completely deleted, but eventually it was decided to ‘The Interview’ online broadcasting and to show in a number of smaller theaters. It was a great success: earlier this week the movie was downloaded 4.3 million times, which converted 26 million returned. Cinema attendance gave additional 5 million dollars (4.3 million dollars).
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