Sony Pictures has had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad few weeks since November 24. That’s when hackers broke in to its computer networks and leaked thousands of financial documents and emails revealing the film studio’s inner secrets.

Some of the revelations have been merely interesting, a few have been shocking invasions of privacy, while others could damage individual reputations. All of the revelations have been reported previously in a variety of publications.

Here are 13 things we didn’t know about Sony:

1) Men are paid more than women
Sony’s 17 biggest-earning executives are predominantly white men. According to a spreadsheet called “Comp Roster by Supervisory Organization 2014-10-21,” Amy Pascal, the co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment is the only woman earning $1 million or more at the studio.

2) It’s not just executives
Sony paid Jennifer Lawrence less than it paid Christian Bale or Bradley Cooper, her co-stars in last year’s hit movie “American Hustle.” Lawrence was paid 7 percent of the movie’s profit, while Bale and Cooper received 9 percent, according to emails sent to Pascal.

3) Quid pro quo at play
Emails between Pascal and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd suggest Dowd promised to show Pascal’s husband a copy of a column before publishing it. Pascal’s husband is former Times reporter Bernard Weinraub. Dowd denied the allegations.

4) What would Steve Jobs do?
Sony had the rights to produce the new Aaron Sorkin-written biopic of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. And then it didn’t. Emails show that Sony considered putting Tom Cruise in the lead role. Eventually, though, the movie slipped out of Sony’s hands. Rights to the film were sold to Universal earlier this year.

“I feel like I just gave away a seminal movie, like citizen Kane [sic] for our time,” Pascal wrote in an email to a colleague. “[I] already think i may have made the worst decisions of my career.”

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