North Korea Believed to Have Hacked Human Rights Activists Computer

Over the years I have had a number of technical problems keeping the site up, but I don’t think they were caused by the North Koreans though stories like this one make me wonder:

A prominent U.S. human rights activist claimed Friday that North Korea hacked into his computer last week which contained a document on cooperation between North Korea and Syria.

Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director at the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said that when he woke up at a hotel during his recent visit to Latin America, he found that his computer had been “compromised and remotely accessed.”

The Washington-based non-governmental organization has focused on shedding light on North Korea’s human rights violations and improving the North’s rights records.

“Only one document was opened. That document contains some material that I had received from Syrian human rights defenders regarding Syria-North Korea cooperation,” Scarlatoiu told Yonhap News Agency on the sidelines of a forum in Seoul.

“There is only one suspect here,” he said, referring to North Korea.

Scarlatoiu said that cyber security experts whom he has contacted said that “most likely the attack came from North Korea,” though he has no hard evidence for that. His claim has yet to be independently verified.  [Korea Times]

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