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CSIS entry 814

Date (as written)
September 2018
Year
2018
Actor pages
Lazarus Group
Dollar figures (as written)
$81 million

Source entries (2)

CSIS Significant Cyber Incidents

CSIS entry 814 · September 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice announces the indictment of Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean Hacker allegedly involved in the 2014 Sony hack, the 2016 theft of $81 million from a Bangladeshi bank, and the WannaCry ransomware attacks.
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-07/260706_Significant_Cyber_Events.pdf?VersionId=1Li2342elpx5OV3lnGEYyXXB_LRbGnPm

US Department of Justice press releases

North Korean Regime-Backed Programmer Charged With Conspiracy to Conduct Multiple Cyber Attacks and Intrusions · 2018-09-06 (press release date)
A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging Park Jin Hyok (박진혁; a/k/a Jin Hyok Park and Pak Jin Hek), a North Korean citizen, for his involvement in a conspiracy to conduct multiple destructive cyberattacks around the world resulting in damage to massive amounts of computer hardware, and the extensive loss of data, money and other resources (the “Conspiracy”).
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/north-korean-regime-backed-programmer-charged-conspiracy-conduct-multiple-cyber-attacks-and

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country: Bangladeshi
The U.S. Department of Justice announces the indictment of Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean Hacker allegedly involved in the 2014 Sony hack, the 2016 theft of $81 million from a Bangladeshi bank, and the WannaCry ransomware attacks.
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-07/260706_Significant_Cyber_Events.pdf?VersionId=1Li2342elpx5OV3lnGEYyXXB_LRbGnPm
actors: Lazarus Group
The complaint alleges that Park was a member of a government-sponsored hacking team known to the private sector as the "Lazarus Group,"
https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/news/2018/09/sec-180906-doj01.htm

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NOT A SINGLE HACK: US indictment (Park Jin Hyok) describing earlier hacks already listed (Sony 2014, Bangladesh Bank 2016)