15,000 passwords from North Korean servers cracked by Anonymous

15,000 passwords have been cracked and made freely available on the web after hackers who claim they are linked to Anonymous, attacked North Korean servers. The hackers explained their motivation later in a post, saying the attack was bid to slow down a government that is “increasingly becoming a threat to peace and freedom.”

On Tuesday the hackers posted a statement on a Pastebin page, declaring they have hacked uriminzokkiri.com, which is one of few North Korean web-sites.

In the same post the hackers listed their demands. They insisted the North Korean government should stop its nuclear program, start a transition to a free democracy and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un should step down.

“To the citizens of North Korea we suggest to rise up and bring [this]…government down!” the post also reads.

A few days earlier the hacktivist group Anonymous_Korea informed in a Twitter post they have attacked five North Korean web-sites, the web-sites of the North Korean Committee for Cultural Relations and of the state-owned airline Air Koryo among them.