When Kevin Hart first woke up this morning he had not yet read the actually contents of the email wherein Sony execs called him a "whore" as well as making racist comments about his films, but sometime during the day the Ride Along comedian took a peak and blew his top. The Let Me Explain stand-up took particular issue with the idea that he should have promoted a movie he made with Sony Pictures on his personal Instagram account for free. The hilarious multimillionaire explained through social media that he built his net worth up with his brand, and he doesn't play when it comes to either one of them. According to the latest gossip news updates, the most shocking thing about the high-level hack was that it took place way back in February, but most folks are only only finding out about the security breach now.
When Kevin got up early this morning to promote his new movie with Kaley Cuoco, The Wedding Ringer, on the radio with Josh Gad, he had not yet read the Sony emails that mentioned him by name, but he really wasn't worried about it (via TMZ):
"I haven't seen them yet. Word got to me late, late last night but I haven't looked over them yet.
"Right now my focus is on my movie, The Wedding Ringer, January 16, man.
"That's all I am worried about right now. All that other stuff will come later, and I will figure it out when I have to."
It seems pretty safe to say, that by lunch Kevin had taken a closer look at the in house letters by lunch and was furious with what he saw, but either way Hart was explaining himself by noon on Instagram:
What seems unforgivable isn't the off-color backroom remarks made about Kevin Hart or even all the personal employee data, like highly personal medical records, that a company like Sony failed to protect -- it's that they reportedly knew all about it back in February.
According to Gawker, Sony has been circulating company emails about the problem for months, but the story never seemed to make it to the outside world until now:
"In an email from February 12, 2014, VP of legal compliance Courtney Schaberg provides colleagues (including chief counsel Leah Weil) with a harbinger of awful info security practices.
"Schaberg notes that a [Sony Pictures Entertainment] system may have been obtained by an unauthorized party, who then may have uploaded malware."
It is rumored that North Korea is actually behind the information dump in retaliation for Sony's Christmas day release of The Interview -- a comedy about a Kim Jung Un assignation attempt-- but nothing has been confirmed thus far.
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