Sony Threatens Twitter For Spreading Hacked Emails

Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesLawyer David Boies, who Sony has retained in the wake of the hack attack.Sony has already threatened news outlets for reporting on information made public by hackers, and the company is now going after Twitter, too.

Sony has threatened to hold Twitter responsible for people tweeting screenshots of the leaked info, according to emails obtained by Vice. Sony's lawyer, David Boies, sent a letter to Twitter's general counsel threatening to hold Twitter responsible for any damages that come from disseminating "stolen information" from the hack. 

The movie studio was hacked earlier in December by a group who calls itself the "Guardians of Peace." The attackers, who the FBI now believes originated in North Korea, released a bunch of private emails and other information, and demanded Sony not release "The Interview," a comedy about the assassination of Kim Jong-un.

Sony now seems to be worried about people like Val Broeksmit, a musician who has been tweeting out screenshots of hacked Sony emails.

Broeksmit has reportedly been contacted by lawyers at Sony Pictures, who have demanded he destroy the data he's been tweeting out as well as the tweets themselves.

The musician doesn't think he's going to do that, though.

"I'm not with a newspaper and I think I can get away with it," he told Vice. "It's important - the reason is it's so new and different from anything we've seen before."