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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.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday October 13 2017, @09:09PM (1 child)
TFS:
The story went out of its way to avoid dates or specifics.
Other sites mention that it wasn't discovered until September 2016 and go into more detail,
indicating that the actual data grab happened some unspecified time before that date.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/13/16465882/north-korea-cyber-attack-capability-us-military [vox.com]
And yes, it was under the prior US administration as well.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:58PM
Obama loves wiretapps. But he doesn't care about protecting the cyber.