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The producers of the next James Bond flick, ‘Spectre’, have confessed that the Guardians of Peace hacking group stole an early draft of the film’s script before leaking it.
Eon Productions published a statement in which it said the script was stolen by the very same group that managed to hack into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s systems.
Members of the Guardians of Peace are alleged to have stolen data – up to a possible 100 terabytes – as well as five movies (including Annie, which has yet to be released), email conversations, passwords and employee records.
An official statement read:
“Eon Productions, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film Spectre is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system.”
The statement went on to say that the film’s script should have been privy only to Danjaq LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios with protection from copyright laws in the UK and the rest of the globe. It pointed out that no one has any rights to publish, reproduce, or disseminate the script, whether fully or partially.
Eon and Sony both have cyber security personnel in place who are working to resolve the issue. While the news may worry some businesses, most companies don’t have to worry about being targeted by the Guardians of Peace group. The Eon hack goes to show how important it is to fill cyber security jobs.
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