Sony Data Leaking Goes On; Warns to Sue Twitter If Dissemination of Such Information Continues

With a lot of Sony data leaking out to the public via the Internet, Sony Entertainment Studios has sent out its warning to the members of the media in an attempt to arrest the spread of information. As a matter of fact, the company has announced that it would legally sue Twitter if it has to unless the widely-used social media bans the accounts of those who would provide links to the leaks.

Sony's warning was delivered in a letter by Sony lawyer David Boies to Twitter's general counsel Vijaya Gadde. The letter reads that the company (Sony) would "hold Twitter liable for any damage or loss arising" from the use or continued spread of the stolen information, which began when the group Guardian of Peace has hacked into their system.

In the letter similar to the one sent to various online publications just last week, Boies also said that his client "does not consent to Twitter or any Twitter account holder to own, review, copying, dissemination, publication, uploading, downloading, or making any use of the stolen information," and that Sony would like to ask for Twitter to cooperate in suspending any accounts found to be spreading the leaked data.

According to some reports, the letter also has a request for Twitter to share some information about the threat of one Val Broeksmit. Broeksmit, with a handle of @bikinirobotarmy on Twitter, has received a message from Sony's copyright expert Elliot Ingram, after he has obtained some of the emails from the cyberattack.

The email reads, "Rather than complaining to Twitter and risk them taking action against your account, we thought we'd get in touch first and ask if you would remove the tweets that we've identified." Broeksmit said that he didn't take the letter seriously, but got his account temporarily suspended.

Under their service's rules, users are not allowed to post personal and private data in tweets. However, Twitter also said that they can't apply that rule to other sites and stop users linking to such information. Apparently, Twitter still has to consider its actions towards the Sony data leaking issue since the problem of one company now means to threaten social media.