South Korea Rushes to Patch Up Cybersecurity After North Korea Steals Top Secret War Plans

South Korea Rushes to Patch Up Cybersecurity After North Korea Steals Top Secret War Plans
In this file photo, members of the Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA) check on cyberattacks at a briefing room in Seoul on March 20, 2013. South Korea is scrambling to patch up vulnerabilities in cyberspace, after a shocking report that North Korean hackers had stolen a large cache of military documents in 2016. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images
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South Korea is scrambling to patch up vulnerabilities in cyberspace, after a shocking report emerged that North Korean hackers had stolen a large cache of military documents last year. The compromised information includes a top secret war plan to remove Kim Jong Un, the head of the North Korean regime.

On Oct. 9, Democratic Party Parliament Representative Lee Cheol-hee revealed that North Korean hackers had broken into the Defense Integrated Data Center in September last year to steal the South Korean military’s operational plans against the North, which include operational plans 5015 and 3100.