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Hackers stop North Korea video game fundraising campaign

Developers said Christmas Eve website outage unlikely related to N. Korea

Hackers have stopped a fundraising campaign for a video game which allows users to play as Kim Jong Un, a statement published by U.S. developers MoneyHorse said late last week.

The video game – Glorious Leader! – had attracted widespread media attention since being announced in May last year, but won’t be published any time soon due to the recent hacks.

“Over the holidays we were victims of a hack inspired by the attack on Sony. The hackers destroyed data pertaining to Glorious Leader! and other projects we had in development and locked us out of our own computers and wesbite