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…

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…

Dan Sterling, who wrote the The Interview, is reteaming with the controversial film’s directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for another comedy project with political elements, this time in TV. The trio has sold the half-hour Citizen Floyd to Fox with a put pilot commitment. 20th Century Fox Television, where Sterling…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Ten months after the studio was ripped apart by a massive hack attack and thousands of employees’ personal information ended up exposed online, Sony Pictures has reached a tentative deal to end the lawsuits stemming from the breach. "On September 1, 2015, Plaintiffs and SPE reached an agreement in principle…

Thousands of dollars in unauthorized credit card charges, attempts to open accounts under their names, and personal data showing up all over the Internet are just a few of the claims that Michael Corona, Christina Mathis and others are making in court documents filed last week. The former Sony Pictures staff members…

Sony Pictures Entertainment got some of what it wanted in its motion to dismiss, but still has to face claims of negligence that its security wasn't sufficient to protect past and present employee's private information from ending up all over the World Wide Web. Long story short – Sony is facing more fallout from last…

WikiLeaks apparently is not through with Sony. The document-sharing company headed by Julian Assange announced it has added "thousands" more hacked Sony Pictures emails to its searchable database. The announcement came Thursday via WikiLeaks' Twitter account. This comes two weeks after WikiLeaks announced it had…

Sony’s experience offering The Interview simultaneously online and in theaters following last year’s hacking imbroglio whetted Netflix appetite for doing the same with other films, execs said today in a conference call with Wall Street analysts. The fictitious comedy about an assassination attempt on North Korean…