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Human trafficking on a special edition of amanpour from rome. that starts tuesday at 7 p.m. in london, 8 p.m. central european time only on cnn. well, sony pictures is reportedly looking into whether north korea is behind a massive hack of their computer system. at least five unreleased sony films have appeared online since that attack. sony is about to release a comedy that includes a cia plot to assassinate leader kim jong-un which has angered pyongyang but one expert says this sort of hacking is not pyongyang style. martin williams is the founder of north korea tech org, a blog that track...

Could north korea even carry out such a sophisticated attack? >> they can buy hackers on demand. so can you go out to the free market and you can say, this is what i want to have happen. here's a certain amount of money, just make it happen. >> reporter: experts say kim jong-un like his father is a voracious consumer of western movies but that doesn't mean they can take a joke. >> when they see themselves being ridiculed in these media forms that they love, it must really hurt them more than a sanction by the united states or by the u.n. security council. >> reporter: contacted by cnn sony wou...

Be alone in a room with kim jong-un, and the cia would love it if you could take him out. >> hmm? >> take him up. >> for coffee? >> reporter: when the north koreans got word of the production they called it undisguised terrorism and now new questions about possible retaliation. sony pictures entertainment, the company that produced the movie is dealing with a massive cyberattack. corporate e-mailers have been crippled and screener movies including "fury" soon posted on illicit websites. the interview is not one of the movies hacked but experts say the attack is very damaging. >> for an entity ...

From mandera. cnn affiliate ktn reports about 20 gunmen targeted workers at the site. al shabaab rebels killed 28 people in a bus attack in mandera last month. now, the fbi is putting businesses on alert for a new hacking threat. an official says it's the same type of malicious software that infected sony's computer systems just last week. >> yeah, and at least five of sony's unreleased movies have appeared online as a result of that attack. as brian todd report, questions are surfaces about whether north korea is to blame. >> reporter: it's a hollywood romp with the perfect villain. >> i ha...

Didn't it? it said this is an act of war and threatened stern punishment would be meted out. you don't think that possibly plays some part here, that maybe someone outside of north korea but linked to north korea may have a motive here? >> well, like i said it's always possible but still it doesn't really seem likely. north korea issues a lot of threats through its state run news agency all the time. threats to the united states, to japan, to south korea, constantly being threatened with things like all-out war so the kind of thing they said is really not that unusual. certainly that's usually...