Amazing. The NSA attempts to spy on the North Korean nuclear program and leaves a trail a mile wide for hackers to follow.

So, let me get this right. The NSA is vital to the USA because it carries out spying that never ends the danger to the USA or it's allies, right? The FBI didn't stop the attack, did it? What good is the program if it does nothing but inflame international theaters where trust is required to end such programs as North Korea's nuclear program?

Here again, Americans get facts AFTER a successful attack and not before. The programs of the NSA should never be in the spot light. It should be so covert and so successful attacks don't happen and there is not a ripple of evidence the USA has controlled yet again an attack on the USA or allies infrastructure.

January 19, 2015
When the FBI said definitively (click here) last month that North Korea was "responsible" for the hack of Sony Pictures, there were those who doubted the veracity of the report.
How could North Korea, a country not exactly known for being a high-tech hub, pull off such a complex hack? And how did the U.S. conclude so quickly that the secretive nation was behind the attack?
As it turns out, the U.S. had some inside information. According to reports from Der Spiegel and The New York Times, the U.S. knew that North Korea hacked Sony because the U.S. had hacked North Korea.
The National Security Agency (NSA), in fact, has had access to North Korean networks and computers since 2010, the Times said. Officials wanted to keep tabs on the country's nuclear program, its high-ranking officials, and any plans to attack South Korea, according to a document published by Der Spiege....

The NSA stopped nothing!

If the intelligence programs of the USA don't prevent attacks of ANY KIND they are useless.