Here is what is going on around the Sony hack tied to Sony’s ‘The Interview’ movie, and the The Interview threat from the Sony hackers. The Interview, with a Christmas release date, sees Seth Rogen and James Franco’s characters going to North Korea to interview North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and convinced by the CIA to take the opportunity to kill Kim Jong Un. Ahead of its release, hackers hacked into Sony, grabbed all sorts of private employee and corporate data, including copies of the movie and other unreleased movies including Annie, Mr. Turner, Fury, and Still Alice, and then issued the following threat, including allusions to 9/11.

4Channers and Reddit users are among those on social media sites who are part of a new wave of citizen cybersleuths – or “crowdsleuthers” as some are calling them. The concept of crowdsourced terror investigation isn’t new, but it’s in the news like never before since the Boston Marathon bombing.