Most worrying for the spooks, Snowden's acolytes could yet blow the cover of thousands of operatives, methods and operations which have not been made public but, given that the stolen trove included 58,000 GCHQ documents, easily could be.
The biggest share of the operating loss is expected to come at Sony's television operations, which have been losing money for years.
Many were in its mortgage operations, which have been hurt by the nation's housing slump.
The two operations, which have slimmed back in recent years, employ 7,100.
This prevents spurious operations, which have a detrimental impact on system reliability.
Its American operations, which have nonprofit status, were started in 1949, with editorial, production and administration based in Manhattan.
A further 110,000 supply-chain jobs depend on its operations, which have an annual turnover of £6bn.
Instead of banking, they buy gold or use "chit funds" — group lending operations, which have been dogged by allegations of graft.
Not surprisingly, Evgeny claims that the elder Lebedev's troubles will not affect his own London operations, which have, he says, "secure funding".
The American operations, which have confined the Taliban mainly to the backcountry and the Pakistani border region, are extremely controversial, especially among Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group.
The Federal Reserve is reviewing the potential risks posed by the operations, which have generated many billions of dollars in profits for the banks.
