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North Korea hacked 140,000 South Korean computers in a huge campaign

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Dissent

Jack Kim reports:

North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attack against its rival, police in the South said on Monday.

South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by theNorth after Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February that led to new U.N. sanctions.

The North has always denied wrongdoing.

Read more from Reuters on Business Insider.

See also FedScoop for how U.S. fighter jet blueprints wound up in the breach.


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