Comey misspelled as Corney in a wikileak where the FBI tried to blame North Korea for hacking Sony
N.Korea - really? FBI briefed on alternate Sony hack theory
FBI agents who are investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed recently by a security firm that says its research on the attacks points to laid-off Sony staff and not to North Korea, as the perpetrator.
Even the unprecedented decision to release details of an ongoing FBI investigation and President Barack Obama publicly blaming the hermit authoritarian regime hasn’t quieted a chorus of well-qualified skeptics who say the evidence just doesn’t add up.
Hackers who targeted Sony Pictures over the release of the film The Interview “got sloppy” and inadvertently revealed their links to North Korea, according to the director of the FBI.Speaking at the International Conference on Cyber Security James Comey said hackers had mistakenly sent messages that could be traced to IP addresses used exclusively by North Korea. Corney said the North Korean origins of the cyber attack were evident despite the use of proxy servers in other countries to throw investigators off their trail. "It was a mistake by them," he said. "It made it very clear who was doing this."
The US federal investigations chief added that he had a “very high confidence” that the attack was carried out by North Korea, “as does the entire intelligence community”.
However researchers from the cyber intelligence company Norse have said their own investigation into the data on the Sony attack doesn’t point to North Korea at all and instead indicates some combination of a disgruntled employee and hackers for piracy groups is at fault. The FBI says it is standing by its conclusions, but the security community says the agency has been open and receptive to help from the private sector throughout the Sony investigation.
https://wikileaks.org/hackingteam/emails/emailid/315976