BREAKING NEWS Friday, December 19, 2014 12:10 PM EST
F.B.I. Accuses North Korean Government in Cyberattack on Sony Pictures The F.B.I. on Friday directly accused the North Korean government of organizing the cyberattack that debilitated Sony Pictures computers, marking the first time the United States has accused the leaders of a foreign nation of sending destructive computer code to strike on American soil.
The bureau said that there were significant “similarities in specific lines of code, encryption algorithms, data deletion methods, and compromised networks” to previous attacks by the North Koreans. It also said that there were classified elements of the evidence against the North that they could not reveal.