CNN: ‘Remarkable’ North Korea Was Able To Strike Fear into Americans over a Movie

‘Here you have it very directly. One cyber-attack from North Korea shuts down a movie that costs a few tens of millions of dollars’

"There is a political diplomatic cost and there is an immediate business cost. Here you have North Korea that has caused a major American movies studio tens of millions of dollars. We talk about cyber-attacks and they come from China every day, multiple times a day. Often times the business cost of those attacks, sort of theoretically you imagine, it's done the line, hard to quantify.

Here you have it very directly: one cyber-attack from North Korean shuts down movie that cost a few tens of millions of dollars and sets a precedent that North Korea can exact a financial cost, a dollar cost very directly on the U.S. economy, in addition to striking fear in Americans talking about going to a movie on Christmas day with your kids. The fact that they can do both those things is pretty remarkable."

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