Hackers apparently break into North Korean social media sites
SEOUL -- A group of hackers claimed it broke into North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr social media sites Thursday.
North Korea’s Twitter account, which normally posts articles and bellicose rhetoric from the regime in Pyongyang, included tweets reading “hacked” or “Tango down.”
The government’s Flickr account included a picture of leader Kim Jong Un with a snout and pig ears and a Mickey Mouse image on his torso. The post included text reading “threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclear weapons/wasting money while his people starve to death.”
The government’s accounts reportedly stopped sending typical content.
The suspected postings from the hackers included the statement “We are Anonymous.” Anonymous is the name of a hacking group. A statement allegedly from the hackers reportedly said they had acquired member information from some 15,000 accounts on the government’s Uriminzokkiri.com and other websites.
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