South Korea raises cyber threat level after huge data centre fire sparks hacking fears | South Korea
South Korea’s intelligence agency increased the national cyber threat level due to concerns that computer pirates may benefit from chaos caused by a fire in a government data center that paralyzes critical digital infrastructure throughout the country.
National Cyber Security Center operating under the intelligence service, raised the warning From “Attention” to Monday to “Attention ,, he states that hackers can benefit from the security vulnerabilities as the rescue work continues.
The fire began on Friday evening at the National Information Sources Service in Daejeon, a large technology center in the south of Seoul. The facility is one of the three operational government data centers that manage the critical digital infrastructure throughout the country.
Workers were moving Lithium ion batteries From a server room on the fifth floor when it is fired, the fire spreads to other batteries and adjacent servers to the basement floor. A worker continued his first -degree burns and the firefighters extinguished the fire after 22 hours.
The authorities were closed until Saturday morning 647 Government Systems He’s afraid of more damage. Bring the state e -mail and intranet systems to a halt. Mobile identity services, such as post banking, complaint portals and great government websites.
Schools could not access student registrations and tax payment deadline with non -cycle systems. Real estate operations stopped without a digital document verification. A national crematorium reservation system was affected and some hospitals and transport terminals initially rejected citizens who lacked physical identity cards.
From 13:00 on Tuesday, 89 of the 647 affected system, including the main government portal, postal services and authentication systems, have been restored.
Authorities estimate that 96 of the affected systems have been completely destroyed. It will take about four weeks to transfer them to a backup facility in Daegu, that is, in the early October, the National Holiday, which lasted for a week, will continue to disruption through Chuseok.
President Lee Jae Myung apology Sunday. At a crisis meeting, he shocked the lack of spare operating systems. “This was a predictable event, but there was no counter measures. The measures were not the inability to work – not just there was no.”
When the authorities struggle to answer questions about the reserve protocols, accused them “Driving without a map”.
At the end of October, the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit held in Gyeongju, the Southeast city, increased security concerns with leaders of the USA, China and other regional powers.
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The left -leaning Hankyorheh newspaper asked what last week’s failure was saying about a country that calls itself as a “Country of Information Technology Power Center”.
Conservative Dong-A Ilbo was equally frightened, even to talk about South Korea’s status as a digital leader was “shameful”.
Politicians from both decision and opposition camps Permented Charges Who was responsible. President of the Chief of General Staff Kang Hoon-Sik, the authorities on Monday, instead of accusing the previous administration ordered to solve problems.
