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U.S. investigators believe that North Korea, lacking the capability itself, likely hired hackers from outside the country to help with last month's massive cyberattack against Sony Pictures, an official close to the investigation said on Monday (December 29).
While the FBI has stood by its previous statement that North Korea was behind the attack, other theories being looked at include that the hackers may have been from Russia or that the suspects might be a Sony insider.
But Kevin Mandia, the chief operating officer of FireEye Inc , whose forensics division helped Sony investigate the attack, said it's hard to tell exactly who's responsible..
SOUNDBITE Kevin Mandia, chief operating officer of FireEye, saying (English):
"At the end of the day, you can always throw darts at any theory unless you're one hop away from th
