According to multiple regime officials cited past times the NY Times who are familiar amongst the indictment, the charges would live on brought against Park Jin Hyok, who plant for North Korean armed services news means Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB).
The Nov 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack was done inwards retaliation for the studio's production of a comedic film, "The Interview," a comedy virtually 2 journalists who are recruited past times the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
In June 2014, the Pyongyang regime equally good denounced the celluloid equally "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, equally good equally an Act of War" inwards a missive of the alphabet to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The Sony Pictures hack was devastating to the companionship together with exposed over 200GB of its confidential data, including upcoming painting scripts, sensitive employees data, celebrities call numbers together with equally good the high-quality versions of 5 then-unreleased films.
The assail equally good wiped out seventy pct of the company's reckoner capability, erasing all the data on virtually one-half of Sony's personal computers together with more than one-half of its servers, together with wiped from computers scores of confidential emails that were afterwards published past times Wikileaks.
At the time, the U.S. authorities said that they traced the source of the assail to North Korea, though they did non call the hackers.
Now, iii regime officials familiar amongst the indictment said the DoJ is planning to denote charges against Park Jin Hyok, equally good known equally Pak Jin Hek, who is equally good linked to the Lazarus Group.
Lazarus Group is an alleged North Korean regime baked hacking grouping which has equally good been implicated inwards the endeavour to pocket $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank inwards 2016, together with to the 2017 WannaCry ransomware menace.
The WannaCry virus wreaked havoc final twelvemonth past times crippling virtually 300,000 hospitals, corporations, regime agencies together with other organizations inwards 150 countries inside simply iii days.
Hyok allegedly worked inwards China from at to the lowest degree 2011 to 2013 but returned to Democratic People's South Korea before long earlier the assail on Sony Pictures inwards Nov 2014. The federal arrest warrant against him was issued past times the USA inwards June this twelvemonth but solely unsealed today.
The U.S. authorities convey previously blamed Democratic People's South Korea for the both the WannaCry together with Sony Pictures attacks, but this is the get-go fourth dimension they convey publicly named a suspect inwards the crimes.
The U.S. Justice Department has non commented on the indictment yet.
