North Korea probably stole South Korean warship blueprints after hacking into Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd’s database in April last year, a South Korean opposition lawmaker said on Tuesday. North Korea has often been implicated in cyber attacks
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea probably stole South Korean warship blueprints after hacking into Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd’s <042660. KS> database in April last year, a South Korean opposition lawmaker said on Tuesday.
North Korea has often been implicated in cyber attacks in South Korea and elsewhere but Pyongyang has either ignored or denied accusations of hacking.
« We are almost 100 percent certain that North Korean hackers were behind the hacking and stole the company’s sensitive documents, » Kyung Dae-soo of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party told Reuters by telephone.
Daewoo Shipbuilding has built several South Korean warships, including an Aegis-class vessel and submarines. It was most likely North Korea had obtained blueprints for these, he said.
The hacking was discovered by a division under South Korea’s Ministry of Defence in charge of investigating cases of cybercrime, said Kyung, who received a briefing on the investigation.
