The Sony Hack | From Revisionist History
4/22/202631 min
On the morning of November 24, 2014—just a few days before Thanksgiving—Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked. It was one of the most damaging business hacks in U.S. history. Some estimates put the cost to Sony at over a hundred million dollars. And when former Sony head Michael Lynton looked at what happened, he came to an uncomfortable conclusion: that it may have been all his fault.
In this episode from Revisionist History, Michael tells host Malcolm Gladwell about the time thatgreenlighting a film led to an international incident. Find Revisionist History wherever you get your podcasts.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Lizzie Bassett· Host0:29
[door creaking] Hello, dear listeners. It's a bit odd to be talking to you on a Wednesday, but we thought we could bring you something a little bit different. It's an episode from Revisionist History from our friends at Pushkin Industries, and it's a great follow-up to an episode we did earlier this year about Seth Rogen's movie, The Interview, the film that went from parodying Kim Jong Un to leading to one of the most devastating corporate hacks in history. Was it worth it? Let's find out. In this episode, host Malcolm Gladwell sits down with former Sony Pictures Entertainment head Michael Lynton for a first-hand account of the attack from the man who greenlit the movie. If you like this episode, Revisionist History has a new season all about mistakes. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Malcolm Gladwell· Host1:12
[door creaking] On the morning of November twenty-fourth, twenty-fourteen, just a few days before Thanksgiving, Michael Lynton drove from his house in West Los Angeles to Culver City, the home of the sprawling complex that houses Sony Pictures Entertainment.