By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
President Obama and the FBI blamed North Korea for the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November based on information that was collected when the NSA hacked into the country’s computer systems in 2010, the New York Times reports.
The NSA eventually was able to penetrate directly into North Korea’s system and use malware to monitor the internal workings of computers and networks of many of North Korean hackers, most of whom are commanded by the country’s main intelligence service.
The evidence gathered in the hack convinced President Obama that North Korea was behind the attack.
It was the first time the U.S. ever accused another country of striking American targets with a cyberattack.
