Two high-level officials offer new support for the claim that North Korea orchestrated the attack on Sony’s servers.
Two high-level U.S. officials on Wednesday backed the Obama administration claim that North Korea was behind last month's devastating hack of Sony Motion Pictures' servers.
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Speaking at Fordham University's International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS), FBI Director James Comey elaborated on his agency's previous judgment that Pyongyang ordered the attack.
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Comey for the first time revealed details of just how the FBI determined that North Korea was behind the Guardians of Peace, the group that claimed credit for the hack, saying the group "got sloppy" when masking their IP addresses. That allowed, as Verge reported, "security researchers working with the bureau to trace some of their activity back to North Korean internet connections."
"We know who hacked Sony. It was the North Koreans," Comey said. "I have very high confidence about this attribution."
Since the FBI's original accusation, several cybersecurity experts have raised doubts about whether the law enforcement agency had made the right call. North Korea, meanwhile, has maintained its innocence in the matter.
Earlier on Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that he actually dined with the man responsible for coordinating the hack for the North Korean government during his recent visit.
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