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South Korea probes data leak of agents spying on the North
- There are ‘signs’ discovered by officials that the leaked data may have reached North Korea, according to a Yonhap report
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The South Korean military said it was investigating a case that local news media said entailed a leak of highly sensitive information regarding Seoul’s intelligence agents spying on North Korea.
The Korea Defence Intelligence Command, a secretive branch of the South Korean military, discovered about a month ago that classified information, including personal data of its agents stationed overseas, had been leaked, according to Seoul’s Yonhap News Agency on Saturday.
Officials have since “detected signs” that the leaked data may have reached the nuclear-armed North, the Yonhap report said.
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The case was “currently under investigation by military authorities,” the defence ministry said in a statement, without confirming the local reports.
The military plans to handle the case “sternly in accordance with laws and regulations according to the results of the investigation,” it added.
The announcement came days after the United States, Britain and South Korea issued a joint warning on Thursday that North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber “espionage campaign” to steal classified military secrets to advance its banned nuclear weapons programme.
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