Sony vs. Twitter: no more hacked accounts, or legal action.

Tense situation in these hours between Sony’s top brass and Twitter staff. Sony Pictures Entertainment has indeed officially stated that it will evaluate the concrete possibility of initiating legal action against the microblogging-based social network.
The request for this not to have real consequences is to monitor the platform, proceeding with the deletion of all accounts evidently managed by hackers.
It is learned, in fact, that in recent times Sony has suffered an attack on its IT systems, with the consequent theft of numerous documents, many of them confidential. It would indeed be about 2 terabytes of stolen files, including emails, documents, data on economic and financial movements, and so on.
A portion of this stolen material subsequently appeared online, disseminated precisely through a Twitter account.
Sony is particularly targeting those behind the “@bikinirobotarmy” profile who are supposedly disseminating this information. The request to Twitter is therefore to handle cases like this carefully, proceeding with the closure of the “pirate” account itself. In reality, upon closer inspection, the cited account is not the source of the leaks, but rather a user who has only retweeted some of the content originally disseminated by other accounts.
The matter, from a legal standpoint, has been entrusted by Sony to lawyer David Boies, who has already sent a letter to Twitter’s headquarters, also announcing that the company will hold Twitter responsible for any damage or loss, should confidential information continue to be disseminated on the platform.

The situation is not as simple as Sony’s requests might suggest, given that a large part of the “incriminating” material has not been posted as an image or text, but consists merely of links, which, when followed, allow access to what has been leaked from Sony’s servers.
It is therefore difficult to destroy every trace of something that, concretely, resides elsewhere.