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Taiwan Foreign Trade Board Website Hacked Into
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:52:57 -0600
http://www.chinatimes.com.tw//english/eculture/89121803.htm 2000.12.19@2:03am Taiwan time updated Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) The Internet website of the Republic of China's Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) was broken into on Sunday and Monday by a hacker suspected of being from mainland China. The break-in by the hacker, calling himself the "Old Cat from Chaozhou" on the BOFT website's homepage, brought back memories of the wave of computer hacker break-ins into official Republic of China websites that occurred in 1999 from across the Taiwan Strait, sources from the BOFT said. Fortunately, a firewall -- a device that protects data from outside intruders -- protected most of the BOFT's database from the hacker, who was only able to replace the homepage. Suspecting that there may have been political motives behind the intrusion, which occurred between 6 p.m. on Sunday and 9 a.m. on Monday, related BOFT officials and Internet experts are looking into the case, hoping to trace back to the source of the break-in. Although the hacker's self-proclaimed name suggested that he was from a mainland Chinese city, BOFT officials do not rule out the possibility that he is from Taiwan and was just having some malicious fun. Last year, hackers across the Taiwan Strait engaged in a series of dog-fight style Internet battles with Taiwan authorities after the mainland Chinese hackers broke into important ROC government agency websites, including those of the Control Yuan, which is the top watchdog agency in Taiwan, the National Assembly, and the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau. One "Chinese hacker" broke into the Control Yuan website on Aug. 7, 1999, claiming that "there is only one China in the world, and the world needs only one China." The message was believed to be clearly aimed at then-ROC President Lee Teng-hui's redefinition of the Taipei-Beijing relationship as a "special state-to-state" one. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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