(Paris/Taipei Comprehensive News) Taiwan Telecom Company Chunghwa Telecom is reportedly stolen by hackers, including military and government documents, and sold it on the dark network.The Taiwan Ministry of Defense confirmed the news on Friday.
According to Agence France -Presse, the Taiwan Ministry of Defense on Friday (March 1) stated in a statement that the leakage incident of Chunghwa Telecom involved documents from the army, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Coast Patrol Department and other units.
The Ministry of National Defense stated that the Air Force contract involved in the incident is not confidential information. The communication between the navy and government departments does not include confidential information. It is emphasized that relevant contractors have required to strengthen information security control to prevent the incident from further occur.
TVBS News Network reported on Wednesday (28th) that the documents sold on the dark web are data with 1.7TB of content size in China Telecom."Leasing the Sino -Singapore Satellite Turnor" and so on.
Related information, including the summary before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs three years ago, before the summary of the Citizer Communication Cooperation Cooperation Case, China Telecom helped the Sea Patrol Parade No. 9 ship installation and enable satellite communications last year, and suspected that there was a Taiwan official residence opposite the official residence of Taiwan's official residenceCircuit diagram.
Chunghwa Telecom announced on Thursday (29th) that it has fully launched relevant review and information security defense mechanisms, actively launched investigations, emphasizing that the current evaluation incident has no significant impact on the company's operations.Safe information.
The statement of the Ministry of National Defense and Chunghwa Telecom did not indicate the identity of the hacker, nor did it explain the source of the attack.
Microsoft also released a report last August saying that hackers, known as the "tyrannical typhoon", are suspected to have connected with mainland Chinese governments. At least 2021, the organization locks in Taiwan's government agencies, key manufacturing, andInformation technology organization and actively carry out spy activities.
