The Justice Department said the hackers were responsible for a wide range of criminal activity and high-profile intrusions across South and Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Africa, including a retaliatory 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Hackers claiming to have access to an unreleased movie have threatened to release several minutes of the film unless the ransom is delivered in Bitcoin, says Disney chief Bob Iger. A Pirates of the Caribbean sequel could be the film in question.