U.S. Congressman Admits That The U.S. Took Down North Korea's Internet In Response To Their Cyber Attack Against SONY

Kim Jong Un inspects "new" military technology made by unit 1501 of the Korean People's Army in this 2013 photo. KCNA

Bloomberg: North Korea Web Outage Response to Sony Hack, Lawmaker Says

Representative Michael McCaul becomes the first U.S. official to publicly say the Web outage was retaliation.

A December blackout of North Korea’s Internet was retaliation for that nation’s hacking of computers at Sony Corp.’s Hollywood studio, a top U.S. lawmaker on cybersecurity issues said without identifying who was responsible.

Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on Tuesday became the first U.S. official to link the outage as reprisal for disrupting computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

“There were some cyber responses to North Korea,” McCaul said earlier in his public remarks at the event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

WNU Editor: The man who made this remark is Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), and he is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. That is why his remarks are important .... he of all people would know if the U.S. was responsible for taking down North Korea's internet.

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