CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures vowed Monday that it will not be destroyed by a massive cyber attack, a day after hackers promised a big "Christmas gift" for the Hollywood studio.
Staff were called together in Los Angeles to hear how the company is responding to the November 24 hacking attack, which has produced a string of damaging and highly embarrassing leaks.
"This will not take us down," Sony Pictures chief Michael Lynton told employees, cited by a Sony source, adding: "You should not be worried about the future of this studio."
Staff, who applauded their bosses at 20 minute meetings according to the source, declined to comment to AFP as they emerged from company headquarters.
The meetings were also addressed by the company's co-chairwoman, Amy Pascal, who apologized again for some of her leaked email comments, according to entertainment industry news website Deadline Hollywood.
In those emails Pascal notably made racially insensitive remarks about President Barack Obama. She had already apologized publicly.
She paid tribute to the company's staff Monday.
"You all are the backbone of this company. And it is your incredible efforts and perseverance that will get us through this," she said.
Monday's meeting came after the so-called Guardians of Peace (GOP) hacking group promised: "We are preparing for you a Christmas gift.
"The gift will be larger quantities of data. And it will be more interesting. The gift will surely give you much more pleasure and put Sony Pictures into the worst state," added the statement, posted on pastebin.com.
The group has demanded that Sony stop the release due on December 25 -- Christmas Day -- of the comedy "The Interview," depicting a fictional CIA plot to kill North Korea's leader.
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