In Damage Control, Sony Targets Reporters
Summary: Sony Pictures Entertainment's lawyers at Boies, Schiller & Flexner sent a letter demanding that Krebs cease publishing detailed stories about the company's recent hacking and destroy any stolen company data he collected while reporting. UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh concluded Sony "probably" has no legal basis for the demand, though he noted that publishing highly private facts about individuals or large troves of stolen data could invite a lawsuit or a copyright claim.
What's compelling: The episode shows a breached company spending legal effort on reporters rather than on the exposure itself: the letter followed a Dec. 5 demand from a firm called Entura to remove a link to a leaked directory listing, and former employees were already suing Sony over the hack.
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