The network system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea has been reported by the relevant Chinese department. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China said that countries should jointly maintain network security through dialogue cooperation, and should not discredit other countries without factual basis.
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin answered questions at the routine press conference on Thursday (November 9th) that China has always resolutely opposed and combat all forms of cyber attacks.Cyber security is a common challenge facing countries. All parties should jointly maintain network security through dialogue cooperation, and should not discredit other countries without factual basis.
According to the Yonhap News Agency, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea revealed that in January last year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's garbage email shielding system suffered a hacker attack with unknown paths, and about 4GB of documents in the system was leaked.
The official said that the leaked information was not involved in confidentiality, most of which were spams for individuals and did not cause substantial losses.It is reported that after the hacking attack, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea conducted a security inspection of the information system.
The official is cautious about the source of the hacker.He said that hackers use multiple IP transit addresses, so they cannot judge the origin of hackers based on the final transit address.However, a ruling national power party said that the hacker can be determined from China.
