Karma for North Korea? The Country’s Internet Crashes ‘Hard’

(NEW YORK) — The tables may have turned on North Korea.

The reclusive country's state-run Internet has been down "hard" for about three hours, according to Dyn Research, which monitors the state of the Internet around the globe.

"I haven't seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in [North Korea] before," Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, told the website NorthKoreaTech.org. "Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently."

It's not clear what's causing the outage at this time.

Last week, a Twitter handle claiming to represent the hacking group Anonymous tweeted: Operation RIP North Korea, engaged. #OpRIPNK.