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Blackberry to the rescue in Sony's hacking case

Incident a boost for the US firm, with customers looking for more secure devices

Published Thu, Jan 1, 2015 · 09:50 PM

New York

IF there's one company that's gotten a bit of good press from the Sony Corp hacking scandal, it's BlackBerry Ltd.

The beleaguered entertainment company dug up old BlackBerrys to use after Sony's computers and landlines went down and company e-mail was unusable after a cyber-attack that began last month, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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