NSA hacked N. Korea since 2010, ‘knew’ of Sony link – secret document

Monday, January 19, 2015
By Paul Martin

RT.com
January 19, 2015

New information appeared that the NSA was hacking into North Korea back in 2010. As it turns out, the White House could not have accused Pyongyang of the Sony hacks, had it not been for the spy tools already embedded in the North’s networks.

The whole affair was a chain of events that started five years ago, when the United States realized the importance of keeping checks on the North Korean nuclear program, as well as monitoring for the possibility of attacks on its own facilities in South Korea and the region.

This is the story according to former US government and foreign officials, as well as a number of computer experts who spoke to The New York Times. The information was also disclosed in a freshly declassified NSA document.

It was a very intricate hack, as the American spies had to break into Chinese networks through which North Korea connected to the world. It was aided by South Korea and other allies. Its other task was to probe Malaysian networks for channels it knew were used by North Korean hackers. That is how it gained direct access into the North’s systems.

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