The South Korea's military cyber command, set up to guard
against hacking, appears to have been breached by North Korea, the military has
said.
A spokesman told a news that classified information was
thought to have been stolen, although it is not clear exactly what data was
accessed.
The North has previously been accused of hacking into banks
and media outlets but never the South's military.
Pyongyang has in the past rejected allegations of cyber
crime involvement.
"It seems the intranet server of the cyber command has
been contaminated with malware. We found that some military documents,
including confidential information, have been hacked," an army spokesman
told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
It is not clear whether low-grade documents or more
important details like war plans were accessed.
The military said that the compromised section of its
network was isolated once the attack was detected.
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North Korea is believed to have thousands of personnel
involved in cyberwarfare.
Since 2010 they have been focusing on application
programming interfaces (APIs), which can be designed to attack national
infrastructures, North Korean defector and computer science professor Kim
Heung-Kwang told the BBC.
The North has a track record of alleged cyber attacks in
recent years against South Korean government agencies, banks and media
companies.
An apparent concerted campaign involving the planting of
malicious code began in 2014, Reuters news agency quoted police as saying.
It was aimed at laying the groundwork for an attack on a
massive scale, the agency said.
The campaign was discovered in February this year after
defence-related material including blueprints for the wings of F-15 fighter
jets was stolen.
Some 140,000 computers at 160 companies were attacked up
until this June, according to police.
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