Teen Hacks North Korea Website with ‘Password’

少年用“password”黑了朝鲜网站

You know how we are not supposed to use a simple term like “password” when creating a password?

你知道我们不应该将一个简单的、比如“密码”这样的词语来设置为密码吧？

Someone forgot to tell North Korea.

有人就忘了把这事告诉朝鲜。

Or they didn’t listen. Because a British teenager gained use of a new North Korean website by entering the password ... “password.”

或者他们没当回事。因为一个英国少年通过键入密码“password”获得了朝鲜一个新网站的使用权。

Scotland’s Andrew McKean, 18, hacked a website North Korea calls “Best Korean Social Network.” It looks like a Facebook page, but it is not part of the American-based social network. The real Facebook site serves more than 1 billion people every month.

苏格兰18岁的安德鲁·麦基恩，黑了朝鲜一个名为“朝鲜最佳社交网”的网站。该网站看起来像是一个脸书页面，但它并不是该美国社交网络的一部分。真正的脸书网每月服务超过10亿人。

The North Korea site, reports MarketWatch, is seen by about 1,000 households.

这个报道市场观察的朝鲜网站，服务于约1000个家庭。

McKean said he found out which computer program was used to build the site, according to NYMag.com. Then, he easily hacked the admin account, or the account that controls the site.

麦基恩说通过NYMag.com他找出了用于建设该网站的电脑程序，然后他轻而易举地黑了该网站的管理员帐户，也就是控制该网站的账户。

“McKean says he had access to user accounts, the ability to censor content, and could have even changed the site name,” said the online magazine.

据该在线杂志报道，“麦基恩说他获取了用户账户，可以审查内容，甚至能改网站名。”

But all he left was a simple message that read, “Uh, I didn’t create this site just found the login.”

但是他只留下了一个简单的信息：“嗯，我没有创建这个网站，我只是可以登录。”

The site appears to be taken down.

该网站看似被搞掉了。

I’m Kathleen Struck.

凯思琳·斯特拉克报道。

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Words in This Story

hacked – v. to break into files or accounts

network - n. a system of lines, wires that are connected to each other

households -adj. of or relating to a house or the people living in the house

account - n. a company's record of the products or services used by a customer

You know how we are not supposed to use a simple term like “password” when creating a password?

　　Someone forgot to tell North Korea.

　　Or they didn’t listen. Because a British teenager gained use of a new North Korean website by entering the password ... “password.”

　　Scotland’s Andrew McKean, 18, hacked a website North Korea calls “Best Korean Social Network.” It looks like a Facebook page, but it is not part of the American-based social network. The real Facebook site serves more than 1 billion people every month.

　　The North Korea site, reports MarketWatch, is seen by about 1,000 households.

　　McKean said he found out which computer program was used to build the site, according to NYMag.com. Then, he easily hacked the admin account, or the account that controls the site.

　　“McKean says he had access to user accounts, the ability to censor content, and could have even changed the site name,” said the online magazine.

　　But all he left was a simple message that read, “Uh, I didn’t create this site just found the login.”

　　The site appears to be taken down.

　　I’m Kathleen Struck.