North Korea’s Internet Crashes

SEOUL — Following the Sony hack which led to countless Sony emails to be leaked and the movie ‘The Interview” being taken down, only days later, North Korea’s country state-run internet has been down for over  3 hours. Analysts say that the internet in the country has crashed “hard.”

“I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in [North Korea] before,” Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research told the website NorthKoreaTech.org. “Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.”

At this moment there is no word on what actually caused this severe crash, but signs are beginning to point at hackers. Last week, following the Sony Hack, a Twitter account claiming to the be the renowned hacker group Anonymous tweeted out: Operation RIP North Korea, engaged. #OpRIPNK.

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