The US justice department has charged an alleged North Korean spy for helping to perpetrate cyber-attacks against the National Health Service that saw operations cancelled, ambulances diverted and patient records made unavailable following a worldwide hack in 2017 which affected computers in more than 150 countries.
Park Jin Hyok, 34, was also involved in an attack against the SonyCorporation in 2014 and an $81m theft from the Bank of Bangladesh in 2016, a criminal complaint released on Thursday claimed.
It was not immediately clear if North Korea, who authorities said the operative was working on behalf of during the WannaCry cyber-attack, would make Park available to US law enforcement authorities.
Park was thought to have operated from China, but prosecutors said they now believe he is in North Korea.
US officials believe the hackers struck in retribution for The Interview, a Hollywood spoof film that lampooned the isolated nation to such an extent that its state media warned it would wage “merciless retaliation”.
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