Top U.S. spymaster dined with North general behind Sony hack

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/08/world/top-u-s-spymaster-dined-with-north-general-behind-sony-hack/

AFP-JIJI
JAN 8, 2015

NEW YORK – The U.S. intelligence chief revealed Wednesday that during a 
secret mission to Pyongyang two months ago he dined with the North Korean 
general believed responsible for hacking Sony’s Hollywood studio.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave a riveting account of 
the visit at a New York conference on cybersecurity days after the 
government imposed new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the 
late November attack.

He said it was “the most serious cyberattack ever made against U.S. 
interests” that could potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars in 
damages.

He said that on Nov. 7, the first night of his mission to free two 
Americans being held by Pyongyang, he dined with Gen. Kim, “in charge of 
the Reconnaissance General Bureau, the RGB, who’s the organization 
responsible for overseeing the attack against Sony.”

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