Following the Sony hack saga, between North Korea, Sony Pictures and the US government the North Korea internet is currently down. Guess US has shown whose the boss here.
What caused North Korea to hack into Sony pictures and boldly addmitted to doing so? Well, Sony Pictures released a movie called The Interview, a fictional comedy which showed the assassination of North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. North Korean didn't find it funny and hacked into Sony's computers, rendering thousands of computers inoperable and forced Sony to take its entire computer network offline.
They also threatened terror attack on US citizens if Sony doesn't cancel showing the movie, forcing Sony to pull the interview from theaters and losing almost $200m. However, the US government got involved and told Sony to go ahead and release the movie, that they don't take lightly to threats and promised to retaliate for the attack on Sony.
Bloomberg reports.
"Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack a few days after President Obama warned the US would launch a "proportional response" to North Korea's hack against Sony
North Korea, which has four official networks connecting the country to the Internet -- all of which route through China -- began experiencing intermittent problems yesterday and today went completely black, according to Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research in Hanover, New Hampshire."
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