2. All Hope Will Leave You | The Hollywood Hack

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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‘The Hollywood Hack’ is a three-part narrative series chronicling the biggest Hollywood heist of all time: In the fall of 2014, a group of cyberterrorists hacked Sony Pictures, stealing hundreds of thousands of documents. The materials were eventually leaked online, causing an international incident that would change Hollywood forever. In Episode 2, the hackers release hundreds of thousands of top-secret Sony emails—causing a scandal that reaches from Hollywood to the White House and beyond. Meanwhile, Sony’s employees deal with the fallout of having their professional lives upended—and their personal lives exposed. Host: Brian Raftery Producers: Devon Baroldi, Brian Raftery, and Vikram Patel Sound Design: Devon Renaldo Mixing and Mastering: Scott Somerville Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	Turns out, history and Hollywood are way more connected than you might think.
0:31.0	Thanks for listening. On the evening of December 4th, 2014, less than two weeks after the discovery of a crippling cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment,
0:45.0	company employees gathered on a studio parking lot to dance.
0:49.0	It had been a rough few days for the Sony staffers.
0:52.0	Their computer system had been hacked, their personal data
0:54.8	had been stolen, and on top of all that, they were possibly under threat from North Korea.
1:00.5	So you can't blame those employees for wanting to blow off some steam and jump around at the company's annual holiday party.
1:07.0	Earlier in the day, before the festivity started,
1:13.0	Sony's two high profile leaders, Michael Linton and Amy Pascal,
1:17.0	had addressed the crowd.
1:19.0	Linton thanked the employees for their perseverance,
1:21.0	telling them,
1:22.0	this is a family I feel even more proud employees for their perseverance, telling them,
1:22.6	this is a family I feel even more proud to be a part of.
1:26.6	But Pascal took a more r-a-ra approach.
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