LOS ANGELES — Sony has told employees companywide to not connect to corporate networks or access email after the media conglomerate was hit Monday by what appeared to be a malicious hacker attack threatening to disclose “secrets,” Variety has confirmed.
The apparent hack was reported earlier by Deadline.com. A Sony corporate representative did not immediately return a phone call requesting comment.
According to a source at Sony, the company is telling employees that the situation may take anywhere from one day to three weeks to resolve. The source said a photo appeared on company computers Monday morning with an image of a skeleton and a message saying “Hacked by #GOP.” The message then says, “Warning: We’ve already warned you, and this is just the beginning… We have obtained all your internal data including secrets and top secrets.”