Excel and Word documents plainly expose thousands of computer log-in, financial, and web services passwords, including the Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace passwords for hundreds of major motion picture accounts. 
 
 Yesterday afternoon, the hackers behind the massive Sony corporate data hack released a new trove of documents, and it appears that things are only going to get worse for the victim of the most embarrassing and all-encompassing hack of internal corporate data ever made public. Included in the newest data dump is a file directory titled "Password," which includes 139 Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, zip files, and PDFs containing thousands of passwords to Sony Pictures' internal computers, social media accounts, and web services accounts. Most of the files are plainly labeled with titles like "password list.xls" or "YouTube login passwords.xlsx." One file BuzzFeed News found included hundreds of clearly labeled Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and Twitter usernames and passwords for major motion picture social accounts. 
 
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 Though some passwords appear to be assigned to individual employees and don't include passwords, a number of the passwords to the social media accounts for major films like Ghostbusters, The Social Network, and Easy A appear to be poorly constructed and are not alphanumerical. 
 
 The leak includes usernames and passwords for several corporate news and research services, including Lexis/Nexis and Bloomberg. All told, these subscriptions combined run to tens of thousands of dollars a month. There are also passwords for servers and collaboration services. 
 
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 ​And the story department's passwords for everything from its email to Amazon, Variety, and FedEx. 
 
 ​Another file exposes an individual's passwords for a number of expensive data services. Most of the passwords were simple combinations of obvious nouns and numbers. 
 
 The new files, which were obtained illegally by hackers that some reports say are linked to the North Korean government, are available to download via torrent files, potentially placing this trove of passwords into the hands of any curious hackers, scammers, and criminals. The Sony movie The Interview, starring James Franco and Seth Rogen as journalists who attempt to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is scheduled to be released Dec. 25. When the BBC asked a North Korean representative if the country was responsible for the attack on Sony, a government spokesperson said, "Wait and see." For Sony, this type of security infrastructure is not only highly dangerous but also embarrassing. One of the first and oldest rules of password management and security strongly cautions that users never write down password information. Perhaps most troubling, though, is the prevalence of personal passwords: Amazon, American Express, AIM, Google, and Fidelity passwords that have nothing to do with Sony corporate business have been swept up in the corporate leak. And if the hackers are to be believed, this may just be the second of many massive data dumps. The first two leaks represent only a fraction of the approximately 100TB of data the hackers claim to have taken from Sony. 
 
 Charlie Warzel is a senior writer for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Warzel reports on and writes about the intersection of tech and culture. Contact Charlie Warzel at charlie.warzel@buzzfeed.com. Matthew Zeitlin is a business reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Zeitlin reports on Wall Street and big banks. Contact Matthew Zeitlin at matt.zeitlin@buzzfeed.com. Got a confidential tip? Submit it here. 
 
 News moves fast. Keep up with the BuzzFeed News daily email! Sign up Great! You're almost there! Check your inbox and confirm your subscription now! ||||| North Korea has firmly denied charges that it is behind a massive cyber-attack against Sony Pictures. 
 
 A North Korean diplomat in New York told VOA Wednesday his country has nothing to do with the cyber-attack that crippled the Hollywood studio’s computer system last week. 
 
 "Linking the DPRK to the Sony hacking is another fabrication targeting the country," said the official, who preferred to remain anonymous. 
 
 "My country publicly declared that it would follow international norms banning hacking and piracy," the official claimed. 
 
 This is the first time the North has denied its involvement in the cyber-attack on Sony. Pyongyang has been largely silent on the accusation, sparking rampant speculation that Pyongyang might have sponsored the attack. 
 
 Some press linked the cyber-attack to Pyongyang’s anger over Sony’s upcoming comedy "The Interview," the plot of which involves an attempted assassination of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. 
 
 Earlier, the North denounced the movie and vowed to "mercilessly destroy" anyone associated with it. Pyongyang also sent a letter to the White House asking President Obama to stop the movie, calling the distribution of the film "undisguised sponsoring of terrorism." 
 
 The movie is scheduled for release on Christmas Day in more than 60 countries around the world, including the U.S.
– The latest document dump in the Sony hack has exposed thousands of the company's passwords for various accounts, reports BuzzFeed. The reason this came to light so quickly? The passwords were kept in a file directory called "Password." Among them are hundreds of usernames and passwords for movies' social accounts on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, but also plenty of clearly labeled passwords for everything from Amazon to Fidelity financial services. "Because who needs encryption or security or common sense or even the vaguest attempt at grade-school level online safety," snipes Gizmodo. Hackers have promised to release boatloads of more sensitive information. It's still not certain who's behind the hack, but North Korea today denied responsibility, reports USA Today. "Linking the DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) to the Sony hacking is another fabrication targeting the country," a North Korean diplomat told Voice of America. Pyongyang is miffed at Sony for an upcoming Seth Rogen comedy about a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-Un.