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posted by martyb on Friday October 13 2017, @07:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the somebody-is-have-a-very-VERY-bad-day dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/asia/north-korea-hack-war-plans.html

North Korean hackers stole a vast cache of data, including classified wartime contingency plans jointly drawn by Washington and Seoul, when they breached the computer network of the South Korean military last year, a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday.

One of the plans included the South Korean military's plan to remove the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, referred to as a "decapitation" plan, should war break out on the Korean Peninsula, the lawmaker, Rhee Cheol-hee, told reporters.

Mr. Rhee, a member of the governing Democratic Party who serves on the defense committee of the National Assembly, said he only recently learned of the scale of the North Korean hacking attack, which was first discovered in September last year.

It was not known whether any of the military's top secrets were leaked, although Mr. Rhee said that nearly 300 lower-classification confidential documents were stolen. The military is still unable to catalog nearly 80 percent of the 235 gigabytes of leaked data, he said.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Friday October 13 2017, @08:05PM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday October 13 2017, @08:05PM (#581985) Journal

    This encryption of data has to stop, its just dangerous to allow anyone to use encryption.
    We need backdoors to all encrypted data.

    Oh, wait.....

    Nevermind.

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