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| North Korea 'hacks South's military cyber command' | North Korea 'hacks South's military cyber command' |
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| South Korea's military cyber command, set up to guard against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has said. | South Korea's military cyber command, set up to guard against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has said. |
| A spokesman told the BBC that classified information was thought to have been stolen, although it is not clear exactly what data was accessed. | A spokesman told the BBC that classified information was thought to have been stolen, although it is not clear exactly what data was accessed. |
| The North has previously been accused of hacking into banks and media outlets but never the South's military. | The North has previously been accused of hacking into banks and media outlets but never the South's military. |
| Pyongyang has in the past rejected allegations of cyber crime involvement. | Pyongyang has in the past rejected allegations of cyber crime involvement. |
| "It seems the intranet server of the cyber command has been contaminated with malware. We found that some military documents, including confidential information, have been hacked," a military spokesman told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. | "It seems the intranet server of the cyber command has been contaminated with malware. We found that some military documents, including confidential information, have been hacked," a military spokesman told South Korea's Yonhap news agency. |
| It is not clear whether low-grade documents or more important details like war plans were accessed. | It is not clear whether low-grade documents or more important details like war plans were accessed. |
| The military said that the compromised section of its network was isolated once the attack was detected. | The military said that the compromised section of its network was isolated once the attack was detected. |
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| North Korea is believed to have thousands of personnel involved in cyberwarfare. | North Korea is believed to have thousands of personnel involved in cyberwarfare. |
| Since 2010 they have been focusing on application programming interfaces (APIs), which can be designed to attack national infrastructures, North Korean defector and computer science professor Kim Heung-Kwang told the BBC. | Since 2010 they have been focusing on application programming interfaces (APIs), which can be designed to attack national infrastructures, North Korean defector and computer science professor Kim Heung-Kwang told the BBC. |
| The North has a track record of alleged cyber attacks in recent years against South Korean government agencies, banks and media companies. | |
| An apparent concerted campaign involving the planting of malicious code began in 2014, Reuters news agency quoted police as saying. | |
| It was aimed at laying the groundwork for an attack on a massive scale, the agency said. | |
| The campaign was discovered in February this year after defence-related material including blueprints for the wings of F-15 fighter jets was stolen. | |
| Some 140,000 computers at 160 companies were attacked up until this June, according to police. |