SEOUL - South Korea's intelligence agency said the North Korean hacker could be behind the theft of 530 million dollars worth of virtual coin from a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan last month. It was expressed by South Korean intelligence agencies to MPs as revealed by a number of parties who know the problem.
People, who have knowledge of the parliamentary intelligence committee process, told Reuters on Tuesday (6/2/2018) that the National Intelligence Service did not show evidence that North Korean hackers were responsible for one of the largest criptocurrency theft in history but marked it as a possibility.
Local media had earlier reported the intelligence agency told an intelligence committee that North Korean hackers might have hacked into a Tokyo-based stock exchange.
"This is a possibility that North Korea is behind the theft," said one of the people who spoke with Reuters.