SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korean hackers stole a vast cache of data,Including classified wartime contingency plans jointly drawn by Washington and seoul, when they breached the computer network of the South Korean.Military last year, a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday.
One of the contingency plans contained the South Korean military’s plan to remove the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, referred to as the “decapitation” Plan, should war break out on the Korean Peninsula, the lawmaker, Rhee Cheol-hee,
told reporters.
Rhee, a member of the governing Democratic Party who serves on the defense committee of the National Assembly, said he only recently learned of the scale of The North Korean hacking attack, which was first discovered in September last year. It was not known whether any of the military’s top secretswere leaked,althrough Rhee
One of the contingency plans contained the South Korean military’s plan to remove the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, referred to as the “decapitation” Plan, should war break out on the Korean Peninsula, the lawmaker, Rhee Cheol-hee,
told reporters.
Said that nearly 300 lower-classification confidential documents were stolen. The military
Is still unable to catalog nearly 80 percent of the leaked data, he said.
When the hacking attack was found out last year, the Defense Ministry blamed North Korea.
But it has acknowledged only that “some classified information” was stolen, saying that revealing
more details would only benefit its enemies.
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