After a hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment left many employees without access to the network, a statement from officials suggests the attack could have been carried out by North Korea sympathizers.

However, did North Korea hack Sony Pictures to even the score for the studio's upcoming film, The Interview? It seems a bit hard to swallow that some people or someone would get so offended about a film mocking North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un that they would hit Sony with one of the larger corporate hacks of recent record.

North Korea claims, it is not responsible for the massive hacking at Sony but is praising the attack that handicapped the Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan for over the last two weeks. According to Gossip Cop, an entity called the GOP or "Guardians of Peace" broke into Sony's computer system and released private information and also leaked films online.

Reports have accused North Korea of being behind the attack to get revenge for the studio's upcoming film, The Interview, the upcoming James Franco-Seth Rogen comedy in which they try to assassinate Kim Jong-Un. But around the same time Franco and Rogen were mocking the situation on 'Saturday Night Live'. In a statement, the North Korean government not only blasted the movie and denied any responsibility, it also celebrated the hacking.

A spokesperson for the Policy Department of the National Defense Commission said, "We do not know where in America the Sony Pictures is situated and for what wrongdoings it became the target of the attack, nor we feel the need to know about it," the spokesperson added, "but what we clearly know is that the Sony Pictures is the very one which was going to produce a film abetting a terrorist act while hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership."

The statement claims of North Korea's involvement "groundlessly linked" and a "false rumor," claiming it instead "might be a righteous deed of the supporters and sympathizers" joining the country's "just struggle" against the U.S.

The spokesperson said, "There are a great number of supporters and sympathizers with [North Korea] all over the world as well as the 'champions of peace' who attacked the Sony Pictures. The righteous reaction will get stronger to smash the evil doings."

Sony did manage to get its system back online a week or so after attack which leaked out corporate financial information and employee data along with at least five upcoming Sony movies which have since hit various BitTorrent sites.