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    SKorea: Alleged hacking attack hits Internet users

    AP – Thu, Jul 28, 2011

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The personal information of about 35 million Internet users in South Korea was stolen in an alleged hacking attack that originated in China, officials said Thursday.

    Hackers purportedly attacked popular Internet and social media sites Nate and Cyworld earlier this week, stealing data such as social security numbers and email addresses, the Korea Communications Commission said in a statement.

    The regulator said that the operator of the sites, SK Communications, alleged the attack originated from computers in China based on their Internet Protocol addresses. IP addresses are the Web equivalent of a street address or phone number.

    The stolen data included user IDs, passwords, social security numbers, names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses. Nate said the social security numbers and passwords are encrypted so that they are not available for illegal use.

    South Korean police said Thursday their investigation could take several months.

    Kim Jie-won, a KCC official, said that if proven, the alleged attack would be the largest Internet hacking case to have taken place in South Korea.

    The country is one of the most wired in the world and its citizens some of the most Internet-savvy. South Korea has a population of about 50 million people. More than 80 percent of households have broadband access to the Internet, according to the country's statistical office.

    South Korea has faced Internet attacks before, with blame frequently pinned on hackers operating from IP addresses in China. China has denied all charges of hacking in the past and says the country itself is a victim of hacking.

    In May, South Korean prosecutors said that hackers in North Korea had broken into the computer network of a South Korean bank earlier this year. The prosecutors said software used in the hacking was similar to that used in a 2009 attack that paralyzed South Korean and U.S. websites.

    North Korea has flatly denied any responsibility for the attacks.

     

    6 comments

    • noreligion 2
      noreligion 2  •  10 mths ago
      It's Al Gores fault. If he never invented the internet, then it never would have happened
    • zo
      zo  •  10 mths ago
      Wow, China can "protect" its citizens from reading Tibet and Nobel Prize news but it can not protect the world from its hackers or someone using its servers as a proxy. How come? ;-)
    • bigtisas
      bigtisas  •  10 mths ago
      Any hackers around the world can remote login to a server in China and hack to Korea. Please don't cry like a baby Korea.
    • Chewlie
      Chewlie  •  10 mths ago
      "originated in China" No surprise there. If China really claims innocent, they need to crack down on their version of Anonymous.

      And why would a social media site have access to a user's social security number? That's just dumb.
    • Denis
      Denis  •  10 mths ago
      China denies, North Korea denies.........I guess they are innocent then.
    • Kulahptik
      Kulahptik  •  10 mths ago
      so where is the uproar? why is congress not demanding answers from china? don't tell me i can't download a movie from pirate bay when it is ok for the most populated country in the world to rampantly disregard all international laws and jeapordizing millions of people in other countries.
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