http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/02/sony-hacking-seth-rogen-evan-goldberg
BY MARK SEAL
Vanity Fair
March 2015
At 8:30 A.M. on November 24, the Monday before Thanksgiving, Amy Pascal
arrived in her office in the Thalberg building, on the Sony Pictures lot,
in Culver City, California. Pascal, 56, is among the most powerful people
in Hollywood. Having spent 35 years in the trenches—from low-level
secretary to her current job as co-chairman of Sony Pictures
Entertainment, the global television-digital-and-motion-picture
conglomerate—she has earned the expansive third-floor office that was
occupied by studio head Louis B. Mayer, in the 1930s and 1940s, when the
Sony lot was the domain of mighty Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Mayer was known
as “the Lion of Hollywood.” It was on these soundstages and movie sets
that Atlanta was burned in Gone with the Wind and Dorothy followed the
Yellow Brick Road to Oz. Since Sony and a consortium of investors
purchased MGM, in 2005, its films have earned 142 Academy Award
nominations, 10 of them for best picture.
The studio’s secrets were safe in Mayer’s day, when they died within the
walls of a soundproof telephone room adjoining his office. Pascal believed
she didn’t need the soundproof room. Like everyone else in the
entertainment industry these days, she communicated through e-mail that
was believed to be secure. But this morning, as she began her day, she
discovered that a bizarre specter had hijacked her computer. The screen
glowed with a blood-red skeleton baring its fangs, and the words “Hacked
By #GOP.”
Superimposed over the skeleton was an ominous warning:
We’ve obtained all your internal data including your secrets and top
secrets.
If you don’t obey us, we’ll release data shown below to the world.
The “data” below consisted of five links that would turn out to be the
internal records of the entertainment giant.
Pascal thought it was a joke. Still, she called Michael Lynton, 55, Sony
Pictures’ C.E.O. and chairman, who occupies an office down the hall. He
and Pascal have been a team for nearly a decade now; Lynton handles
administration and business affairs, leaving Pascal free to deal with the
creative side of making movies.
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