NORTH KOREA: North Korea says South Korea cyber attack allegation is a provocation

Record ID: 353823

  • Title: NORTH KOREA: North Korea says South Korea cyber attack allegation is a provocation
  • Date: 13th April 2013
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE - MARCH 20, 2013) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF SHINHAN BANK VARIOUS OF SIGN READING IN KOREAN: "WE'RE SORRY TO CAUSE TROUBLE FOR NETWORK OUTAGE" VARIOUS OF ATM OUT OF SERVICE
  • Embargoed: 28th April 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
  • Country: Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
  • Topics: General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA6CCU2YE3FY16QZIXGTF3DA0NL
  • Story Text: North Korea's state-run broadcaster KRT on Saturday (April 13) responded to South Korea's charge that cyber-attacks on banks and media in March of this year were carried out by the North.

    "The South Korean puppet group's claim that 'the March 20 hacking case' was 'the work done by the north' is a deliberate provocation to push the situation on the Korean Peninsula to an extreme phase by taking advantage of the U.S. nuclear war racket and another anti-DPRK confrontation hysteria as it is a replica of the Cheonan warship sinking case," a KRT news reader said in a bulletin.
    South Korea's cyber crime agency has said that it had established that the North was behind a hacking incident over three days last month which affected broadcasters and two big commercial banks.
    The Korea Internet and Security Agency has said the hackers accessed 1,590 times from six computers located within North Korea and other locations abroad.
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