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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Graeme Massie

American hacker says he keeps turning off internet in North Korea

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An American computer hacker says that he is behind a revenge attack that has crippled North Korea’s Internet several times in the last month.

The hacker, who goes by the name P4x, says he had been targeted by the hermit dictatorship’s spies who cyber-attacked Western security researchers in 2021.

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