A cyber alert was issued by South Korea after a hacking attack on government websites. Media sites and even the website of the presidential office were hit by an apparently co-ordinated attack on Tuesday morning. The identity of the hackers was not known, a government statement said.
Messages praising North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and claiming that hacking collective Anonymous was responsible were left on the hacked websites. However, Anonymous denied any involvement in the South Korean cyber-attacks on its official Twitter account, AFP news agency reported. In fact, the group Anonymous was said to have planned attacks against North Korean websites.
A number of North Korean websites went offline on Tuesday morning and appeared to have been targeted by hackers on Tuesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing unnamed sources.
BBC Report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23042334
