President Barack Obama on Friday said that Sony Pictures made a mistake in canceling the release of a movie after a cyberattack from North Korean-backed hackers. "I am sympathetic to the concerns that they face. Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake," Obama said at a news conference Friday. "Let's not get into that way of doing business." Obama's statement came hours after the FBI announced North Korea is officially responsible for the cyberattack on Sony Pictures, an attack law enforcement officials called a "game changer." "We cannot have a society in which some dictators someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States because if somebody is able to intimidate us out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing once they see a documentary that they don't like or news reports that they don't like," Obama said. "That's not who we are. That's not what America is about."
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President Barack Obama calls Sony's decision to cancel movie showing 'a mistake.'
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The FBI called North Korea's actions "outside the bounds of acceptable state behavior"
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Officials tell CNN that the hackers were routed through severs in Asia, Europe and Latin America
The United States will respond "proportionally" to the attack, Obama said, though he would not say how the @placeholder would specifically retaliate.