"Kim was a four-star general in charge of the Reconnaissance General Bureau," Clapper told a crowd at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham, according to The Daily Beast's M.L. Nestel. "The RGB is the organization responsible with the overseeing [sic] attack against Sony." Later at the event, James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, added his weight behind that claim and said he has " high confidence " the hack was ordered by North Korea. "I thought it was very very important that we as a government said we know who hacked Sony, it was the North Koreans," Comey said, according to CNBC reporter Eamon Javers. FBI Director Comey on attribution of Sony hack to NK: "I have high confidence" that it was the North Koreans. — Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) January 7, 2015 In late November, Sony Pictures Entertainment learned that its internal computer network had been compromised.