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Hack Targets North Korean Defectors

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12/28/2018

12/28/2018

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Hack Targets North Korean Defectors

Top News: Nearly 1,000 defectors from North Korea had their personal information leaked after hackers targeted a computer at a resettlement organization. The leaked data includes names, dates of birth, and addresses.

The center in question was run by the Korea Hana Foundation, a nonprofit operating under of auspices of South Korea’s Unification Ministry.

“Currently no harm or damage has been observed due to the leak,” a Unification Ministry spokesman told CNN. “We have been contacting each defector (to brief them).”

Nigeria: Boko Haram militants attacked two military posts in Nigeria’s northeast, killing 14 people and for a short time taking control of the headquarters of a task force made up of soldiers from Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria. ”[T]errorists carted away gun trucks, ammunition, and multiple rocket launchers,” a military source told AFP.

AFRICA

•  A poll favors opposition leader Martin Fayulu in this Sunday’s presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, although a decision to delay the vote in three opposition-leaning cities has thrown the outcome into question.

•  Ahead of this weekend’s election, the Congolese government expelled European Union Ambassador Bart Ouvry in response to renewed sanctions against Congolese officials.

•  Madagascar presidential candidate Marc Ravalomanana contested the results of Thursday’s presidential election in court after the country’s electoral commission declared his opponent Andry Rajoelina the winner.

AMERICAS

•  A partial U.S. government shutdown continued into its seventh day with no sign of a resolution.

•  Some 3.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015—and some 2 million more might follow the same path in 2019, according to United Nations estimates.

•  The sky over New York City turned blue Thursday night after a transformer explosion.

ASIA

•  More than 4,600 people in Indonesia died or disappeared in a series of natural disasters in 2018.

•  North and South Korea broke ground on a railway line set to connect the two countries, although trains won’t be able to run due to sanctions.

•  Two small bombs went off on a beach in southern Thailand, targeting statues.

EUROPE

•  A minority of European voters think they will be better off in five years than they are now.

•  Russia completed a border fence along the frontier between Russia-annexed Crimea and Ukraine’s Kherson region.

•  Jean-Jacques Savin, a 71-year-old Frenchman, set off across the Atlantic in a large barrel-shaped capsule that he built himself, guided only by currents.

MIDDLE EAST

•  According to Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, Turkish forces are preparing to potentially move on Manbij, in northern Syria.

•  Israel approved the construction of 1,451 new housing units in West Bank settlements.

•  Saudi King Salman reshuffled the kingdom’s cabinet, appointing former finance minister Ibrahim al-Assaf as foreign minister.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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