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President obama. >> i think it was an active cybervandalism that was very costly and expensive. we will respond proportionately, as i have said. >> reporter: some cyberscientists say that the u.s. government has got it all wrong, saying that the hack was an inside job. north presented their case to the fbi on monday night, which points to four suspects including one former employee a woman code named as lena who worked for sony for ten years before being laid off in may. >> the suspects at least...

Yesterday to argue that disgruntled sony employees were probably behind this data breach, not north korea. the firms ceo explains some of its reasoning last night on cnn. >> the suspects -- at least one had tied to -- critical knowledge of sony systems, i.p. addresses, credentials, et cetera. and also had motive for what i would say would be upset at sony due to reorganization that happened within the department. >> was the fbi wrong to point the finger at north korea? cnn justice correspondent ...

Publicly identifying north korea, andrea, this is a real departure. we have not seen this in the past. the u.s. government typically operates behind the scenes. based on this statement, they say the gravity of the destruction -- which really amounted to dropping a bomb on the sony systems -- was such that the administration felt they needed to publicly blame north korea in this case. >> and well be watching the white house later today to hear the presidents comments on this. great reporting. tha...