North Korea steals data on over 10 million online shoppers, Seoul says
South Korea said on Thursday it suspected North Korea of hacking a South Korean online shopping site and stealing personal records of more than 10 million shoppers in what appeared to be the latest case of a cyber attack by the isolated state.
The South’s national police agency said it had traced the data breach to North Korea’s spy agency, and it had detected the same IP addresses and codes similar to ones it had used in previous attacks.
South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by North Korea since the North conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket the next month, triggering new UN sanctions.
We are sorry that it has become difficult to arrest a suspect as it has been found to be North Korea’s conduct
North and South Korea have been in a technical state of war since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in an armed truce.
Besides North Korea’s nuclear and rocket programmes, South Korea says the North has an effective cyber army that has launched a series of attacks in the past three years.