Sony Hack News Latest: President Obama Says 'The Interview' Should Not Have Bowed to Threats

Earlier this past Friday, the FBI confirmed that North Korea was behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures. This terrorist attack led to the leakage of several confidential materials, including private emails, movie scripts, and musical tracks.

The hackers call themselves the GOP, or the Guardians of the Peace, and their attack seems to have been invited by the upcoming movie 'The Interview' motion picture. The film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, follows the comedic duo as they attempt to assassinate North Korea's leader.

At his press conference this past Friday, President Obama declared that Sony made a mistake when they pulled 'The Interview' down in the face of North Korean threats. "We will respond," President Obama told reporters, "We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship in the United States."

"I would have told them, do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks," President Obama told the press.

Sony Pictures follows up to Obama's assertion that the company had not spoken to him first by releasing a public statement. In it, Sony agrees with President Obama, and reports that their only major decision was to pull back the film until after Christmas Day, as major theater owners have refused to show it.

In a public statement, Sony addresses the issue by saying, "without theaters, we could not release it in the theaters on Christmas Day. After that decision we immediately began actively surveying alternatives to enable us to release the movie on a different platform..."

Despite the setback, it looks like 'The Interview' has not been completely taken out of commission yet.