Cybersecurity

U.S. Calls North Korean Hackers ‘World’s Leading Bank Robbers’

  • Three indicted for involvement in global campaign of attacks
  • Targets included Sony Pictures, banks and cryptocurrency firms

Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

North Korea was accused of being behind the 2014 hack of an internal computer network of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., an audacious attack that exposed Hollywood secrets and destroyed company data.

On Wednesday, U.S. officials said that was only the beginning.