Official confirms cyberattack on system

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/05/25/2003563107

By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Chris Wang
Taipei Times Staff reporters
May 25, 2013

The government experienced a cyberattack on the electronic interchange 
system for official documents early this month, but no confidential 
information was stolen, an Executive Yuan official confirmed yesterday 
following local media reports.

While keeping mum on its findings in tracing the hacking, the Executive 
Yuan’s Office of Information and Communication Security said it has 
ruled out hackers in the Philippines, who earlier this month used 
denial-of-service attacks to crash the Web sites of several government 
departments when tensions between the two countries were running high 
following the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine 
Coast Guard personnel.

“We have no comment on suspected hackers. We are still looking into 
that,” a staff member at the office, who declined to be named, said 
yesterday.

Asked if the hackers were traced to China, the staff member also 
declined to comment.

The electronic interchange for official documents, administered by the 
National Archive Administration, allows government organizations at all 
levels, as well as schools, to transmit official documents via the 
network in the form of electronic files.

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