So I suppose there's a chance you did not pick up on this headline.
I'm going to tell you a story of a independent hacker who became suddenly a revenge hacker.
This was as reported in the let's see, this was the May 2022 issue of Wired magazine.
So what happened was this independent hacker who goes by the name P for X, he ended up being hacked
by a North Korean nation state sponsored hacker.
And he got all kinds of angry about this.
He had been tipped off to watch for these attacks as I forget what entity had tipped him off.
But he had been tipped off that the North Korean nation state actors were going after independent hackers
like himself.
He ended up opening up malware that was disguised in another tool that he was sent.
He did say that all of that was done in a VM in a sandboxed environment, so no one ever got any data
from him or anything like that.
But it really made him angry.
So what then transpired?
He was speaking to the FBI and he was speaking to other agencies and no one was doing anything.
So he really got angry and took matters into his own hands.
He wanted North Korea to know that that there would be, you know, push back if these independent hackers
were attacked like this.
It's just a fascinating story.
So PS4 X then began going after vulnerability scans big time on a lot of their key network equipment.
What do you think?
He found plenty of vulnerabilities.
And so in January of 2022, he successfully launched a denial of service attack that brought down their
Internet.
And they, of course, for many of their internal citizens, it's a intranet, really, as they are
prohibited from visiting maybe all but one or two websites that are truly public.
But anyways, their entire infrastructure for both the Internet controlled intranet and Internet went
down.
And it was fascinating because obviously we have our own cyber intelligence agents.
They're monitoring things like that North Korean network.
They saw that, oh, they must be being attacked by some other country.
And then they realized, wait a minute, it's an American in his slippers.
In pajamas, he said he binged alien movies, the Alien series, as he was doing all this pretty funny.
So classic act of revenge that had huge consequences in this case for an entire country.