Hacker posts nuclear plant blueprints
Source: Korea Joon Gang Daily
The design blueprints of nuclear reactors and other parts of the nations two largest nuclear power plant complexes were leaked, raising alarm about lax protection of sensitive information that could be used by terrorists.
Blueprints of Koreas nuclear reactors, as well as detailed explanations on how to manage the control software at the Gori and Wolseong nuclear power plants, was posted on a blog on the nations biggest Web portal site Naver on Monday. The blog is run by a user who goes by the nickname Who am I?
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Additional hacked information posted on the blog included test results for thyroid cancer for residents living around the Gori reactor, as well as some personal information of about 10,800 current and former KHNP employees.
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If these reactor blueprints and system manuals are leaked, we could be faced with a situation where someone posing as an employee could log onto the main reactor control system and commit a terrorist act, said an official from the National Information Security Service.
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Why did we attack the control system? Because we dont want to suffer disasters like the Fukushima accident, wrote the blogger. Nuclear power is not a safe source of energy anymore. People living near the nuclear power complex have filed a class action suit claiming that they have been suffering from thyroid cancer.
The blogger claimed that the hacker put over 16,200 pieces of malicious code into KHNPs system and is planning another attack on Christmas.
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bluesapphire48
(1 post)It doesn't make sense to leak the blueprints if you are afraid there will be disasters like Fukushima. The hacking sounds more like something the US government would do. Undoubtedly the CIA has the capability to do it. I am really ashamed of a government that tortures, uses depleted uranium and drones, and generally acts like a rogue state.
A friend of mine has written the following LTE to the New York Times. I doubt if it will ever be published, but I think it is worth reading.
"It is ironic that the US is seeking help from China to help block cyberattacks from North Korea in deciding how to respond to the SONY hacking following the cancelled film premiere of a comedy involving a CIA planned assassination of President, Kim Jong Un of North Korea. As Times columnist David Carr wrote today, was it really important that the head being blown up in a comedy about bungling assassins be that of an actual sitting ruler of a sovereign state? If you want to satirize a lawless leader, there are plenty of ways to skin that cat, as Charlie Chaplin demonstrated with The Great Dictator, which skewered Hitler in everything but name.
"But seeking Chinas help, when China and Russia tabled a proposed treaty in 2011 to develop legal rules for the peaceful use of cyberspace which was rejected out of hand by the US, seems a little late and inadequate to the task. The US already opened a Pandoras box in cyberspace when it boastfully participated in the Stuxnet attack on Irans plutonium enrichment facilities sending a signal to the rest of the world, that this kind of warfare was feasible. Times readers should be informed of how the US rejected offers from Russia and China to negotiate an international treaty for peace in the cybersphere (as well as in space), choosing only to discuss non-binding rules of the road. Without this background information, how will we be able to make informed judgments on US government policies before we reap the awful consequences of our aggressive and provocative actions?
"Alice Slater
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, NY"