Teenager Hacked North Korean Facebook With The Password 'Password'

Kim Jong Un
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How does one hack North Korea's version of Facebook only hours after it went live?


It's rather simple, really. A Scottish teenager managed to crack the commies social media clone (Best Korean Social Network) earlier this week with the rather ingenious combination of:

Username: Admin
Password: Password

First reported by Motherboard, it's a scene that would've looked farfetched even by the comedic standards of Seth Rogen and James Franco's 'The Interview'.



But with the international fall-out of that film, our Scottish hacker, 18-year old Andrew McKean, decided against causing online mayhem and the wrath of Kim Jung-un even though he could: "delete and suspend users, change the site’s name, censor certain words and manage the eventual ads, and see everyone’s emails."

Instead, he left a message: “Uh, I didn’t create this site just found the login."

With the Korean social network site still down, we assume the network administrators have a date with Jung-un's firing squad.

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