North Korea’s Most Destructive Hack: Dark Seoul

On March 20, 2013, the city of Seoul went dark. News stations were halted, ATMS stopped working, and several websites were defaced by two mysterious hacktivist groups. The attack unfolded during a tense period between North Korea and South Korea, making the culprit seem obvious…but was it really North Korea? And perhaps most importantly, what was the true purpose of this operation: pure chaos or something more calculated?

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0:00 Intro
2:59 Chapter 1: Baseline
10:37 Chapter 2: Trigger
13:37 Chapter 3: Execution
22:23 Chapter 4: Post Mortem

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Credits:
Producer: Ignas Žadeikis
Writer: Clara Martinez
Video Editing & Animation: Marius Mažeika
Narration: Ben Mitchell
Graphic Design: Domantė Janulevičiūtė
Supervising Producer: Aušra Venckutė

Special thanks to:
Geoff White

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