Man Who Exposed Target Security Breach Is Focus of Sony Movie Deal (Exclusive)

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/man-who-exposed-target-security-689782

By Borys Kit
The Hollywood Reporter
3/19/2014

Sony has picked up the rights to the New York Times article "Reporting
 From the Web’s Underbelly," which focused on cyber security blogger Brian 
Krebs. Krebs, with his site KrebsonSecurity.com, was the first person to 
expose the credit card breach at Target that shook the retail world in 
December.

Richard Wenk, the screenwriter who wrote Sony's high-testing big-screen 
version of The Equalizer, is on board to write what is being envisioned as 
a cyber-thriller inspired by the article and set in the high-stakes 
international criminal world of cyber-crime.

Escape Artists' Steve Tisch, Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal are producing 
as are Todd Hoffman and Richard Arlook. David Bloomfield will executive 
produce.

Nicole Perlroth's New York Times article told of Krebs, who has the 
appearance of a mild-mannered accountant but writes with a 12-gauge 
shotgun by his side, is an expert in the digital underground and is on a 
first-name basis with some of the biggest cyber-criminals in the world, 
many of whom are Russian.

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