The editorial said it was proved that the Intelligence Service's purchase of a hacking program coincided with 2012 elections and the program was used for surveillance over people.

The IS hyped its staff member's suicide in a bid to hush up the hacking case but it resulted in increasing suspicions, the editorial noted.

Park Geun Hye's force seized power by architecting power-involved elections on Dec. 19, 2012, the editorial said, and went on:

It demanded the Park regime step down at once as it greatly benefited from the IS's hacking case and commanded and ordered illegal hacking.