Italy’s Hacking Team were concerned about attacks from North Korea’s cyber warfare unit due to their cooperation with the South Korean government, a leaked email shows.

In the email, sent in 2010 by one Eugene Park of Nanatech, the South Korean National Intelligence Service’s intermediary with Hacking Team, Park implores the Italian company to not “worry about being here” over potential North Korea attacks.

The debate over whether the NIS purchased its hacking program from Hacking Team to use against North Korea or to spy on its own citizens has gone viral since NIS chief Lee Byung-ho admitted to the