North Korea hacks US-South Korea war plans

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Meeshika Sharma
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North Korea Hackers  are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.

Rhee Cheol-hee, a South Korean lawmaker, said the information was from his country's defence ministry.

The compromised documents include wartime contingency plans drawn up by the US and South Korea.They also include reports to the allies' senior commanders.

Rhee who belongs to South Korea's ruling party, and sits on its parliament's defence committee  said some 235 gigabytes of military documents had been stolen from the Defence Integrated Data Centre, and that 80% of them have yet to be identified.

The hack took place in September last year. In May, South Korea said a large amount of data had been stolen and that North Korea may have instigated the cyber attack - but gave no details of what was taken.

North Korea denied the claim.

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