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It’s Coming Full Circle: The Sony Hack Is Getting Its Own Movie

Even stranger? The hackers might not have been from North Korea.

Just over six months ago, Sony Pictures' security system was breached and tens of thousands of private e-mails from the movie studio were leaked to the Internet for everyone to see. Now, the scandal that shook Hollywood this past Christmas will soon be made into its own feature-length documentary. Funny how that works out, right?

Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, who directed 2013's Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning Egyptian Revolution film "The Square," are reportedly working on a new project about last year's Sony hacks -- and how they might have been an inside job.

Back in November when Sony Pictures first began to receive threats from a mysterious group known only as "Guardians of Peace," the blame was placed squarely on North Korean hackers upset with Sony's political comedy "The Interview," where Seth Rogen and James Franco play reporters sent to kill real-life dictator Kim Jong-un. A month after the breach first occurred in late November, the FBI officially confirmed North Korea as the source of the attacks, and even the White House was "considering a serious response."

But some experts are divided on whether or not this story is true. The security group that Sony hired to clean up the mess, FireEye, maintains that the hack was definitely the work of a foreign organization. But another group, the Norse Corporation, reported their own findings in December that claimed the hackers knew too much about the inner workings of Sony's servers to be outsiders -- meaning it had to be someone within the company.

That's one of the alternate theories that Noujaim and Amer hope to tell in their film, which will also be about the growing concern over cybersecurity online.

“The Sony story is an important chapter in this larger issue,” Amer told the Hollywood Reporter. “The analysts and experts we speak to see it as the 9/11 of cyberattacks, and the implications will be felt for years to come.”

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