U.S. charges North Korean hackers in 2014 Sony cyberattack
The U.S. Justice Department has charged North Korean hackers as part of a state-sponsored conspiracy in the 2014 Sony cyberattack.
Park Jin Hyok and other unidentified co-conspirators are being charged with hacking on behalf of the North Korea Reconnaissance General Bureau, the country’s military intelligence agency. The operatives are believed to be part of the Lazarus Group, the hacking group behind the $81 million Bangladesh Bank heist in 2016. This group is also reportedly responsible for the spread of the 2017 WannaCry 2.0 ransomware attack, which infected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries.
The Sony cyberattack was a historic, massive data breach. “The amount of data released is so large—in the tens of terabytes—that it’s a logistical challenge to even download it, ...