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The computers startup function and that led the fbi to warn the malware can be so destructive that the data is not recoverable or too costly to retreat h tree. evidence assaults the final stage of the attack was launched from outside of north koreas borders, creating plausible deniable, but in almost all of the cybereventses now we see the use of a proxy or cutout to confuse investigators. >> theres been a worldwide cyberward for years now but feels like this one is the one that wakes everybody ...

Administrator at sony to get access to sonys computer system and do what they did. were back with marie hearth. what can the united states do, a proportional response, what does that mean the >> we dont know what that means yet, obviously because were not at the end of the investigation yet. there are a range of options we have to respond. i think you heard them laid out over your show, things weve done in the past. but were just not there yet. >> one of the options is to cut off their opportuni...

Penetrate even the best signer defense. would you have protected against an attack like this? "not 100%" he says. its like catching a cold or getting the flu. or in sonys case, a disease that crippled a major corporation. the electronics and entertainment giant has been a popular cyber target. in 2011, hackers stole 77 million playstation accounts, knocking out the network for almost a month. >> people thought about cyber terrorism. >> reporter: sony was taken by surprise last month. signer crim...

Cnn has learned the u.s. government is considering a, quote, range of options. it is weighing the potential response to the sony cyber attack. the breaking development tonight, of course, that american investigators have determined north korea ordered the cyber attack on sony pictures and specifically, the leaders of north korea. pamela brown is in washington tonight with the breaking news. pam la, the white house is now responding. >> reporter: it is. the national security council now respondin...

The united states announced today that they would not show the film. this afternoon sony announced theyve canceled the movies christmas day release. they called it off. maybe some day theyll release it some day in some form, we dont know, but that leaves us with the question of who made this threat on american movie theaters. was it north korea which does object to this sony movie but also does a lot of meaningless sabre rattling all the time. was it another group? was it a hacker group with som...

Attacks from iran and north korea? >> i would call them acts of cyberpiracy. they are not exactly acts of war. they are not threats against national institutions. they are attempts to abuse private actors. but they are -- they show us what the future cyberwarfare would look like and that is very much the example of the russians in estonia in 2007 and the stuff that chinese were experimenting with against the united states in the early 2000s. >> sony is paralyzed right now, fran. their computer s...

>> reporter: hey carol, yes. it was quite an alarming situation for sony in 2011. it was in april when it was announce thad some 77 million play station users had their accounts compromised. they had to shut down the entire play station network for nearly a month. then that same year there was also a hacking incident involving sony pictures where another 150,000 people had their user names and passwords leaked out. but even after those debacles, sony was still caught off guard, taken by complete...

Proportional response. i guess he was suggesting that if the u.s. went too far, that could make things worse. in your mind, what is a proportional response? >> you have to find a proportional response to hack into north korean computers, that is not going to be very effective because their infrastructure is such that they dont run off of a computer system. ive been once in north korea and, frankly, their economy is not an economy that you can really attack in this way. it seems to me that their ...

Outsourced it elsewhere. tonight the fbi is scrubbing sewn thinks computer system trying to gather enough evidence to be able to definitively point the finger at the hacking culprit. >> it is a complexioned nuanced investigation and involves not just going into your own i.t. systems but the more sophisticated hackers have gone through multiple, multiple infrastructures to get to where theyve gotten to so its not something thats going to be solved by sony in a day or week or month. >> reporter: i...

The country condemns as a an act of war. u.s. law enforcement officials tell cnn that the strong suspicions is that the country is the instigator of the attack and possibly outsourced it to a group elsewhere. the fbi is scrubbing sonys computer system trying to gather enough evidence to be able to definitively point the finger at the hacking culprit. >> sit a complex nuance investigation. the more sophisticated hackers have gone through multiple infrastructure to get to where theyve gotten to. s...