Sony Pictures warns media outlets against using hacked data

Los Angeles

SONY Pictures Entertainment warned media outlets on Sunday against using the mountains of corporate data revealed by hackers who raided the studio's computer systems in an attack that became public last month.

In a sharply worded letter sent to news organisations, including The New York Times, David Boies, a lawyer hired by Sony, characterised the documents as "stolen information" and demanded that they be avoided, and destroyed if they had already been downloaded or otherwise acquired.