UNDER ATTACK: The government’s digital domains suffered 10 level 3 incidents last year, which might have compromised personal data stored on the affected systems
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 05, 2018
By: Lee Hsin-fang and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The threat from state-sponsored cyberattacks on the nation’s digital infrastructure,
President Tsai Ing-wen, center left, attends the inauguration of the information communication and electronic warfare office under the Ministry of National Defense’s General Staff Headquarters in Taipei on Sept. 11 last year. Photo: courtesy of Military News Agency
including those directed by Beijing-affiliated groups, has increased in sophistication and severity over the past year, the Department of Cyber Security said yesterday.
Last year, Chinese hackers mounted 288 successful cyberattacks on the government’s systems, or 80 percent of the total of 360 successful attacks that the department discovered, department Director Chien Hung-wei (簡宏偉) said.
Each month, the government’s systems are subjected to anywhere between 20 million and 40 million attacks, in addition to billions of probing actions made by hackers looking for weaknesses, he said.
These actions are initiated by hackers from around the world, though groups based in China are believed to be involved in many of them, Chien said. [FULL STORY]
