Contestants to the E-Stars Seoul game festival in South Korea. Police believe North Korean attacker's chairs $ 6 m from online game servers in the South. And: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesOne is the most wired country in the world, with 90% of its homes hooked up to the internet. The other refuses its population internet access and even 13.05.2009 mobile phone usage.
But North Korea, whose people may be the most cut-off nation on the planet, stop the family town its southern rival of opera things hacking an elaborate network that allegedly broke into online sites hosted in South Korea and chairs prize points worth almost £ 3.7 m ($ 6 m).
The North blustered on Sunday that it had nothing to do with the hijacking scheme. Its grandly named Committee for Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland issued a riposte rather to odds with its name, accusing the "puppet authorites" of fabricating allegations. The Korean Central News Agency was blunter, telling the South Koreans to "shove the cheap gimmicks".
Police in the south believe 30 North Korean hackers based in northeast China were hired to infiltrate Seoul-based online game servers and build so-called "auto programs" based on the data they siphoned. Investigator arrested five South Koreans last week and family, them of building and distributing the illegal programs. They said some of the proceeds went to the cash-strapped regime in Pyongyang.
North Korea has been family of launching several cyber attacks on the South in the past – crippling the computer networks of a major local bank and attacking the websites of the presidential office and other government agencies earlier this year – but it was the first time North Korean hackers were suspected of making a profit from their activities.
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