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Teen Hacks North Korean Facebook

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Teen hacks into North Korean Facebook using the password 'Password' | Fox News

Haha. Great thing about North Korea is that you can be a Democrat or Republican and have something in common. A good laugh at the most hysterical 'nation' on Earth. A British teen uses the login name 'admin' and password 'password' just for sh*@ts and gigs. It works! He controls the site. Instead of doing what I would have done (made comments about Kim Jong Un), he did the humble thing and just let them know that there was an issue.

Can't wait to hear what happens to the IT department :)
 
Teen hacks into North Korean Facebook using the password 'Password' | Fox News

Haha. Great thing about North Korea is that you can be a Democrat or Republican and have something in common. A good laugh at the most hysterical 'nation' on Earth. A British teen uses the login name 'admin' and password 'password' just for sh*@ts and gigs. It works! He controls the site. Instead of doing what I would have done (made comments about Kim Jong Un), he did the humble thing and just let them know that there was an issue.

Can't wait to hear what happens to the IT department :)

Some poor Korean IT guy and 3 generations of his family are going to spend some time in a North Korean re-education camp for this
 
Some poor Korean IT guy and 3 generations of his family are going to spend some time in a North Korean re-education camp for this

And some guy he bought rice from
 
Because it is North Korea we are talking about here, odds are "the network administrators" the article mentions are the ones facing re-education camp. If not worse.
 
Wondering if this is even real.

Edit:
Fox got the story from here: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-north-korean-facebook-clone-has-already-been-hacked
Which had previously reported on the NKFB clone here: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/t...th-koreas-facebook-clone?utm_source=mbtwitter

Daily Mail reported on the same thing, also citing Motherboard: British teenager hacks North Korea's newly-launched Facebook site phpDolphin | Daily Mail Online
As did "The Telegraph": North Korea's 'Facebook' hacked by Scottish teenager

And a bunch of other sources, all seemingly citing Motherboard.
Though this one appears to possibly have done some of it's own checking: British teen who hacked North Korea's version of Facebook reveals Kim Jong-un's 'easy to guess' password - Mirror Online

Reddit is slightly more helpful, with one person commenting:
Something fishy in this story.

North Korea has it's own completely separate internet called "Kwangmyong" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)#Network_access) which is not connected to the "real" internet. (IE not hackable from the outside world)
There are only a tiny number of "real' internet addresses there ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea#IP_address_ranges) , but why would that tiny handful need their own Facebook, and in ENGLISH at that?


Yet, is unclear whether this is true or not...apart from the level of ridiculousness inherent in the story.
 
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Wondering if this is even real.

Edit:
Fox got the story from here: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-north-korean-facebook-clone-has-already-been-hacked
Which had previously reported on the NKFB clone here: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/t...th-koreas-facebook-clone?utm_source=mbtwitter

Daily Mail reported on the same thing, also citing Motherboard: British teenager hacks North Korea's newly-launched Facebook site phpDolphin | Daily Mail Online
As did "The Telegraph": North Korea's 'Facebook' hacked by Scottish teenager

And a bunch of other sources, all seemingly citing Motherboard.
Though this one appears to possibly have done some of it's own checking: British teen who hacked North Korea's version of Facebook reveals Kim Jong-un's 'easy to guess' password - Mirror Online

Reddit is slightly more helpful, with one person commenting:



Yet, is unclear whether this is true or not...apart from the level of ridiculousness inherent in the story.

Thanks for this almost informative comment
 
It sounds like a great story to be on The Onion.
 
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