In the fall of 2014, a group of hackers pulled off the biggest Hollywood

heist of all time. They broke into computer servers belonging to Sony Pictures and

released hundreds of thousands of top secret documents. The attack would cause an international incident,

upend thousands of lives, and change the movie industry forever.

From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Brian Raftery, and this is the Hollywood Hack.

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David?

Yeah. I am coming to you from Chicago. Yeah, so I hear. With the Democrats.

Political party you might have heard of? Democrats. I just got back from the United Center where the Democratic Convention will be happening

and I would love to tell you about my morning.

Please do.

So the fun part about covering a political convention is you got to go through all these security

loops including like a 30 minute window on Sunday morning in which I could pick up my credentials to get into the

convention because of course secret service and other entities are involved here.

But you only had 30 minutes and if you didn't get it you're just out of luck?

Well they that's they said 30 minutes and I didn't want to push it.

Right.

It's hard to believe you wouldn't be able to get it, but it was a 30 minute window.

But once you get all that and once you get through the various security perimeters, you're just kind of wandering around in a really happy way.

Mm-hmm.

So I went into the United Center, where the Democrats are trying to recapture the magic of the 90s Chicago Bulls.

Yeah. Not any other version of the Chicago Bulls. And I was able to walk into the arena,

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