Prosecutors in South Korea say North Korean hackers were at the back an assault that paralysed a heading bank final month.
Banking operations at Nonghyup, a South Korean plantation co-operative, were halted by the cyber intrusion, leaving customers not able to to access their money.
The Seoul prosecutors' office called it "unprecedented cyber-terror intentionally planned" by North Korea.
It mentioned the program used suited that used in progressing attacks by Pyongyang.
Prosecutors mentioned that a laptop used by a subcontractor "became in September 2010 a zombie Personal Computer operated by the North, which... after that remotely staged the assault by the laptop".
One of the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used to break in to Nonghyup's network was the same as a used in Mar for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault that originated in North Korea, they added.
The program used in the situation was moreover identical to that in use in July 2009, when a number of South Korean supervision websites were attacked, the prosecutors said.
The ultimate assault caused a three-day service outage at the bank - moreover called the National Agricultural Co-operative Federation - and caused the archives of a few credit card customers to be deleted.
South Korean media outlets have in the past indicted North Korea of running an internet crusade section directed at hacking in to US and South Korean supervision and financial networks.
The two Koreas technically sojourn at fight subsequent to the 1950-53 Korean War, and tensions have been high in new months in the arise of two lethal incidents.
South Korea blames North Korea for falling its Cheonan warship in Mar 2010, with the loss of 46 lives, nonetheless North Korea denies any purpose in the incident.
Four South Koreans were moreover killed when North Korean infantry shelled a limit island in November 2010.
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