South Korean TV networks and banks suffer computer crashes after suspected cyber-attack from the North
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 20, 2013 17:16South Korea appears to have been the target of a cyber-attack from the North after computer systems at broadcasters and banks in the country simultaneously crashed today.
The shutdown came just days after North Korea was hit by cyber-attacks which temporarily disabled a number of websites in Pyongyang and which it blamed on the U.S. and South Korea.
The two nations have been engaged in an increasingly aggressive war of words in recent weeks, with North Korea threatening war after cancelling the decades-old ceasefire between the neighbours.
Officials at the two South Korean public broadcasters KBS and MBC said that all computers at their companies shut down at 2pm (5am GMT).
The officials said the shutdown was not immediately causing damage to their daily TV broadcasts.
The state-run Korea Information Security Agency confirmed that computers at at least five South Korean companies were down.
While officials said they were working to find the cause of the outage, immediate suspicion fell on North Korea.
Accusations of cyber-attacks on the Korean Peninsula are not new.
Seoul believes Pyongyang was behind at least two cyberattacks on local companies in 2011 and 2012.
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