Even as it threatened to attack South Korea, North Korea —or at least its presence on the Internet— itself came under attack from online hacktivist collective Anonymous.
North Korea's main news website, Uriminzokkiri.com was offline, even as its official Twitter and Flickr accounts were compromised as of Thursday afternoon.
The Uriminzokkiri.com news and information site was offline as of 5 p.m. Thursday (Manila time), which a report on The Next Web said could be due to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
Several posts on North Korea's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/uriminzok) bore the message "Hacked." Even the Twitter account's profile photo showed two people dancing the tango, with the message "Tango Down."
Not even North Korea's Flickr account was spared, featuring photos with the Guy Fawkes mask, a black background with the message "We are Anonymous," and a parody of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
A report on The Next Web said hackers from Anonymous earlier claimed to have taken 15,000 passwords from North Korea’s Uriminzokkiri.com news and information site.
The Next Web cited an April 3 PasteBin note from Anonymous scoring Kim Jong Un and claiming to be able to manage this crisis "the peaceful way." — TJD, GMA News
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