UPDATED throughout with more details: Nearly four years after it jolted Hollywood and threw a wrench into international relations, the Sony hack is once again taking center stage. The Department of Justice today unsealed a criminal complaint against a North Korean computer programmer who conducted sophisticated cyber…

Hollywood is closing in on the third anniversary of the massive Sony hack, but The Hollywood Reporter and its former owner have just been hit by a new $5 million defamation lawsuit over its coverage of the attack that could draw fresh blood. "Callously indifferent to the devastation its Article would visit upon Ms…

Over two weeks after HBO was compromised by a hacker seeking a multi-million payout, today's release of correspondence of the premium cabler offering $250,000 indicates that there might be more smoke than fire in this latest Hollywood attack. Unlike the sprawling and gutting Sony attack of late 2014 when assumed…

HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler sent an internal memo to staff today urging calm as media begin to report out the sketchy details of a hack attack at the premium cabler. The network confirmed Monday that it was hit, with some reports suggesting hackers were able to access even more data than exposed at Sony…

During the 2014 Sony hack, Deadline readers benefited from the wisdom of Los Angeles based Hemanshu "Hemu" Nigam, a former federal prosecutor against Online Crimes and former Chief Security Officer for News Corp and Fox Interactive Media, and VP Worldwide Internet Enforcement under Jack Valenti's MPAA. Nigam then…

Max Kelly's business card doesn't say much: It has an email address, and a trade-marked black masking box where the name of his computer security company, [redacted], ought to be. He is deeply interested in North Korean affairs. But don't ask him, for instance, whether the U.S. had a hand in the recent Korean rocket…

A year and a half after Sony Pictures was devastated in a massive hack that saw thousands of employees' personal information ending up exposed online, the class action lawsuit against the studio has come to an end — though legal action from the hack itself hasn’t. Today in a sometimes contentious hearing in federal…

A year to the day that Sony was ripped open by a massive hacking, the fallout continues from the public disclosure of private and corporate information. While one set of lawsuits move towards a multi-million settlement, today the studio's former VP, Global Commercial Planning and Innovation Amy Heller hit Sony and…

It was the most devastating cyber-crime ever committed against an American corporation, and its repercussions are still being felt not only in Hollywood but across the country and around the world. One year ago today, Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked by shadowy terrorists calling themselves the "Guardians of Peac…

The lawsuits over the massive hack of Sony last year may be almost settled but now it seems lawsuits over the coverage have started – at least one. Nicole Basile has slapped The Hollywood Reporter's parent company Prometheus Global Media and two of the publication's writers with a defamation suit over a December 2014…

Just less than a year after the hacked studio saw digital reams of private information, corporate emails and more exposed, Sony Pictures Entertainment has put a price tag on the cost to end the resulting lawsuits. That price is around $8 million, court documents filed Monday reveal. And a big chunk of that is going to…

And you shouldn’t have, either, the Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO said today at a panel in San Francisco sponsored by Vanity Fair. Addressing the massive cyber attack that crippled his company and leaked, among other things, his own personal e-mails for public consumption, Michael Lynton said, "The part that was…