WikiLeaks publishes 200,000 Sony hacking files

WikiLeaks has published thousands more documents from the hacking of Sony Pictures, with one email linking the company's CEO to a US military research cooperation.

Julian Assange 's website has made more than 170,000 emails and 30,000 documents available online after the hacking in December.

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The data has been put into an archive which is fully searchable and includes emails that connect CEO Michael Lynton to the RAND corporation, a US military research corporation.

In a press release, Assange said: "This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation. It is newsworthy and at the centre of a geo-political conflict. It belongs in the public domain. WikiLeaks will ensure it stays there."

Sony responded with the statement: "We vehemently disagree with WikiLeaks' assertion that this material belongs in the public domain."

December's leak caused huge embarrassment for Sony, with leaked emails revealing derogatory remarks about Angelina Jolie, comments between then-CEO Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin joking that President Obama's taste in films was centred around African-Americans, and the revelation of gender pay gaps in some of the studio's films.

The US government has accused North Korea of carrying out the hacking in response to the studio's controversial film The Interview about the country's leader Kim Jong Un.

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