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Monday, March 08, 2010

Nuke Hack Attack Puts Military On High Alert

A message that North Korea had conducted a nuclear attack on the Japanese island of Okinawa turned out to be false, but the fact it was delivered via U.S. military communications has prompted a high alert, according to U.S. officials who asked to remain anonymous.

U.S. military channels were hacked either by the Chinese or North Koreans, the source said. Access to such communications – even unclassified military systems – suggests a serious breach of technology security.

A Pentagon spokesman declined comment.

A purportedly "U/FOUO" or "Unclassified but For Official Use Only" message claimed to have been put out Saturday by the Office of National Intelligence and prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency. It said:

"Today, March 06, 2010 at 11.46 AM local time (UTC/GMT -5 hours),US seismographic stations recorded seismic activity in the area of Okinawa Island (Japan). According to (sic) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Democratic People's Republic of Korea has carried out an average range missile attack with use of nuclear warhead (sic). The explosion caused severe destructions (sic) in the northern part of the (sic) Okinawa island. Casualties among the personnel of the US military base are being estimated at the moment."

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5 comments:

Paul A said...

Drop the bomb on these bastards and END it already.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a CIA Psy-Ops

RT7487 said...

The military is on no kind of high alert for this... USFK (United States Forces Korea) as well as the South Korean government are conducting a joint war game exercise... The message is merely part of the training that is currently being conducted across the peninsula... So the source was inaccurate in the article that they published... I have also sent this to them in an email... Just thought you should know Joe! :)

Anonymous said...

Oh, we don't want to do that, we want to be niiiice to our member nations, and get alooooong with everyone, right ?

Anonymous said...

It is disinformation that the communists have practiced for years.
Sort of like the talking head Liberals getting on TV and stating that the country wants Obamacare. Just a complete fabrication