Given That Both Sony & The CIA Knew How Toxic It Was.

You have to wonder why they went ahead and released it.

https://english.news.cn/northamerica/20230302/52f1aa8c13c64e8b87554ea2eed45f2d/c.html 

At that point had they still not realised that they were only committing themselves to doing the extra work of taking it back in again(?!)