The Website of the Korean government came under a massive attack Wednesday evening by hackers traced to China, but no major damage was reported, officials said Thursday.
The Website (https://korea.go.kr), which provides civil services and information on government policies, suffered access delays and failures for nearly four hours due to what is known as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the home ministry said.
The attacks came from about 120 China-based Internet servers, it added.
No major damage to the system was reported as the government computer center, under the control of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, took swift measures to block access by the servers, ministry officials said.
It is now tracing the hackers in cooperation with related government offices, including the top state intelligence agency.
All central government ministries and local governments were informed of the attack and asked to take extra precautions against cyber terrorism, the ministry said.