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| Sony cyber-attack: North Korea faces new US sanctions | |
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| The US has imposed new sanctions on North Korea in response to a cyber-attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment. | |
| The White House said President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday sanctioning three North Korean organisations and 10 individuals. | |
| The White House said the move was a response to North Korea's "provocative, destabilising, and repressive actions". | |
| US sanctions are already in place over North Korea's nuclear programme. | |
| But Friday's actions are the first time the US has moved to punish Pyongyang for cyber-attacks. | |
| The FBI previously said it believed North Korea was behind the Sony hack. | |
| The entertainment giant was embarrassed after a group calling itself Guardians of Peace leaked data from Sony computers, exposing emails and personal details. | |
| The group later threatened cinema chains planning to screen Sony's satirical North Korea comedy, The Interview. Oblique references to the 9/11 terror attacks prompted cancellation of the film's nationwide release. | |
| "We take seriously North Korea's attack that aimed to create destructive financial effects on a US company and to threaten artists and other individuals with the goal of restricting their right to free expression," the White House said in a statement. | |
| Among those named in the sanctions are three government entities: | |
| It is unclear how those entities were related to the cyber-attack. |