British lad hacks North Korean Facebook thanks to Kim Jong Un’s ‘easy to guess’ password… as country’s latest missile launch fails
Clever teen guesses admin password and messes with advertising boxes on the site as weapons failure leaves North Korean leader red-faced
THE North Korean version of Facebook has been hacked by a British teenager in the same week that Kim Jong-Un’s missile launch spectacularly failed.
Andrew McKean, 18, from Scotland, managed to access the North Korean Facebook clone after its existence was revealed on Twitter.
Dyn Research, a company that monitors internet activity revealed that North Korea had made a Facebook clone on 27 May.
It didn’t take the quick thinking teen to guess that the password to the site were ‘admin’ and ‘password’.
College student McKean was quickly able to access and control the website.
In a sly move, the teen changed all the advertising boxes on the website to read: “Uh, I didn’t create this site just found the login.”
The boy also left a link to his Twitter page on the website.
After McKean hacked the site, a number of joke profiles claiming to be North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un popped up.
As of Tuesday, the website was offline.
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The teenager told Motherboard that he was thinking about redirecting the social media page to an anti-North Korean website.
The embarrassing hack is thought to have taken place on the same day as Kim Jong-Un’s failed missile launch.
South Korean news agency Yonhap said that the missile was a mid-range Musudan, a powerful weapon if successfully launched.
This could be the fourth time that North Korea’s Musudan tests have flopped.
The militaristic people were thought to have tested three of the same missiles in April, when all three failed.
Officials in Seoul could not confirm that the report was accurate.
The joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea said that North Korea tried to launch a missile from the Wonsan area of the country.
They agreed that it was most possible that the weapon had failed to launch.
This most recent military flop by the North Koreans has eased fears about their nuclear capability.
The Musudan missiles that Korea have been developing have the potential to travel up to 2,180 miles.
If operational, the weapons could hit US military bases in Guam.
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