Yesterday, 16 April 2015, WikiLeaks made an announcement that it had made The Sony Archives (30,287 documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment and 173,132 emails, to and from more than 2,200 SPE email addresses) easily accessible to the public.

In November 2014 during the controversy over Sony's pending release of "The Interview," the film depicting the assassination of its leader, Kim Jong-un and the overthrow of its government, Sony's private files were hacked and leaked to the public.  The White House then alleged that North Korea was behind the hacking. 

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At that time, only a few leaked emails were published and it was difficult for journalists to gain access to the rest of the archives.  Now, according to Wikileaks, The Sony Archives are in a full searchable format offering the public "a rare insight into the inner workings of a large, secretive multinational corporation" --- a behind the scenes peak at an influential company that, according to the emails (almost 100 US government email addresses are in the archive) had ties to the White House and connections to the US military.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief said, the archives reveal Sony's inner workings as "an influential multinational corporation" and will make sure that the archives will be kept in the public domain.

Using a Google-style search engine, WikiLeaks has made it possible for all documents and emails to be "fully searchable." Now the public can read archives that reveal Sony as an influential lobbyist regarding "internet policy, piracy, trade agreements and copyright issues" and have "connections and alignments with the US Democratic Party, the United States military, and the intelligence sector. They also show how Sony collects confidential information on rival pictures.

In the meantime, Sony accuses WikiLeaks of "contributing to the damage done by the data theft," and condemned their act "malicious."  The corporation says it will continue to defend "its safety, security, and privacy of its more than 6,000 employees." Former senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA), said Wikileaks' act is "despicable" that violates privacy.

The Archives now accessible through Wikileaks, comprises of several terabytes of material that include video from movies and high-resolution promotional teasers.

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