Sony Hack: North Korea Suffering Internet Outages (Report)
North Korea’s Internet is experiencing periodic outages, according to media reports.
These Internet issues come just days after President Barack Obama held the North Korean government accountable for hacking Sony Pictures and promised the United States would deliver a proportional response.
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North Korea suffers from periodic Internet outages; however, experts at Dyn Research claim the problems are out of the ordinary, CNBC reported.
“I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before,” Dyn Research director of Internet analysis Doug Madory said. “Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.”
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On Friday, the FBI concluded North Korea was responsible for the Sony hacking as retaliation for Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy “The Interview,” which depicts an assassination attempt on the North Korean leader.
President Obama called the hacking “cybervandalism,” but stopped short of calling it an act of war. For its part, North Korea has denied involvement and turned the tables in the war of words, threatening retaliation.
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The U.S. government “conceived and produced” the movie “The Interview” along with Sony, the Kim Jong-un–led government charged in a statement carried on the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), according to a translation by CNN.
“Nothing is more serious miscalculation than guessing that just a single movie production company is the target of this counteraction,” the statement said. “Our target is all the citadels of the U.S. imperialists who earned the bitterest grudge of all Koreans.”
On Friday, after the FBI said that North Korea was responsible for the hack attack, President Obama said that country “caused a lot of damage, and we will respond; we will respond proportionally, and we will respond in a place and time that we choose.”
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