Hackers reveal star’s salaries

Hackers who took over Sony Pictures computers released the budget for The Interview, the Seth Rogen comedy about North Korea, adding to a breach that exposed pay at Deloitte Touche and studio head Michael Lynton’s credit-card number.

The latest documents, including Rogen’s $8.4m-plus compensation (€10.6m), were posted on the file-sharing site Pastebin after a purported hacker said more stolen data would be coming. Documents on executive pay, Social Security numbers and scripts for not-yet-aired TV shows have also been revealed.

The disclosure, including co-star James Franco’s $6.5m salary, highlights the scope of the breach at the Culver City, California-based studio owned by Sony. The hackers, linked by Sony investigators to a group associated with a North Korean regime unhappy with the coming Rogen film, penetrated Sony’s systems, shut down its networks and put the studio’s films online for free. Documents from The Interview exposed details on deals with top actors.