MCAD Maritime Cyber Attack Database
Year2016 |
Month |
Reference number20160004 |
Impact areaShore |
Incident locationGeoje-si |
Incident countrySouth Korea |
Victim countrySouth Korea |
Victim identityDaewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering |
Victim TypeShip Building Company |
MethodHacking |
Attacker countryNorth Korea |
In 2016, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering got hit by a hacking attack in South Korea. The North Korean attackers were looking for information, through espionage, related to the country’s submarine programs but also beached sensitive data on Aegis Class destroyers. The hackers obtained around 40,000 documents, including 60 classified military files. Daewoo has been hacked 2 times after this incident. The ships affected may include the destroyer Yulgok Yi I – a vessel that carries the U.S. Navy's Aegis Combat System.
