Sony has postponed its quarterly earnings report by a month and a half due to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures in November 2014, the company announced Friday.
In an application filed with the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA), Sony asked that the earnings report deadline for the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2015 be moved from Feb. 16, 2015, to Mar. 31, 2015.
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As for the reasoning behind the request, Sony claims the "highly sophisticated and damaging cyberattack" on Sony Pictures caused "a serious disruption of SPE’s network systems (...) including the destruction of network hardware." As a result, most of Sony Pictures' financial, accounting and other tech applications won't be functional until early Feb. 2015.
The company will hold a conference for the press and analysts on Feb. 4, 2015, but with a caveat that the actual earnings report will be far from finished at that date. Still, Sony currently believes that the impact of the cyberattack on its financial results is "not material."
The cyberattack on Sony Pictures has exposed a bevy of corporate data to the public, including emails from high ranking company officials, unfinished movie scripts, projected movie earnings and more.
The attack and the subsequent threats of violence from the hackers prompted Sony to pull The Interview, a comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, from its planned December theatrical release. Still, the movie was released online in Dec., raking in $15 million in the first four days of availability.