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LEAKED: Hacked Sony Docs Reveal Top 17 Executives' Multimillion-Dollar Salaries

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Sony suffered a major hack this week, leading to the online leaks of four of the studio's coming movies and a cyberattack that knocked out the studio's computer network.

The latest attack is a spreadsheet listing the alleged salaries of 17 top paid executives of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Fusion’s Kevin Roose published the spreadsheet, explaining: "I received a link to a public Pastebin file containing the documents from an anonymous e-mailer ... one interesting tidbit caught my eye: a spreadsheet containing the salaries of more than 6,000 Sony Pictures employees, including the company’s top executives."

The below spreadsheet of the 17 highest-paid execs reveals the $3 million salaries of both CEO Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal (pictured above). 

sony salary spreadsheet

Roose also noted that the list of top salaried executives was 88% white and 94% male.

Of the 17 listed above, only one  Amy Pascal, the co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment and chair of SPE's Motion Picture Group  is a woman. 

The Interview PosterThe initial attack on Sony occurred a month before the studio is set to release the Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy "The Interview," about two journalists recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The Pyongyang government denounced the film as "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism, as well as an act of war" in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June.

Sony and security consultants were investigating the possibility that someone acting on behalf of North Korea, possibly from China, was responsible, according to Reuters. A link to North Korea had not been confirmed but also had not been ruled out.

In the initial hack last week, an image of a skeleton appeared on company computers with a message that said, "Hacked by #GOP," with the group behind it calling itself "Guardians of Peace." The message threatened to release "secrets and top secrets" of the company, according to Variety.

The latest attack listing salaries also includes Sony employees' names, job titles, home addresses, bonus plans, and salaries.

TheWrap previously reported the hackers threatened to release private information from the studio if their demands were not met, but those demands were never made clear. They also did not specify a deadline and had not released information before now.

While Sony has no comment on the latest attack, the FBI has launched an investigation with the studio's support.

"The FBI is working with our interagency partners to investigate the recently reported cyber-intrusion at Sony Pictures Entertainment," the FBI said in an emailed statement. "The targeting of public and private sector computer networks remains a significant threat, and the FBI will continue to identify, pursue and defeat individuals and groups who pose a threat in cyberspace."


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SEE ALSO: 4 Coming Sony Movies Leak Online Amid Giant Cyberattack

MORE: Sony Thinks North Korea Could Be Linked To A Cyberattack Just Weeks Before 'The Interview' Hits Theaters

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