I think there's a pretty good case that North Korean sympathizers were involved in the hack. Despite current 'folklore' that the original hacks were about a ran

I think there's a pretty good case that North Korean sympathizers were involved in the hack. Despite current 'folklore' that the original hacks were about a ransom this appears to come from early reporting where news headlines read that data was being held ransom for demands and it was sort of just assumed to be monetary. The pastebins and messages from #GOP themselves are concerned about the 'movie of terrorism' and promised to give a Christmas gift to those following the leaks. The Christmas gift was leaked email conversations between CEO Lynton and strategic state specialists and where several mentions are made about the involvement of the State Department in the analysis of the movie. To complicate things though the malware used had seen previous use in Iranian attacks against Saudi oil companies and linguistic analysis suggests that the author of the #GOP messages was likely a native Russian speaker.