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发帖数: 27535 | 1 By DEBBY WU - Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's main opposition party said Tuesday its
headquarters has been the target of a sustained hacking attack from China
and one instance of hacking from the government in Taipei.
Deputy Director Alex Huang of the Democratic Progressive Party's Policy
Research Committee linked the computer attacks to Taiwan's quadrennial
presidential and legislative elections, scheduled for January.
"Most of our party officials have had their emails hacked into and we have
lost sensitive documents concerning campaign schedules and promotional
material," Huang said. "Some of the computers have been planted with Trojan
horse viruses so hackers could monitor the machines' activities."
Huang said that DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen's email had not been
affected.
Citing the conclusions of a computer security firm, Huang says one source of
Chinese attacks was the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bureau of China's official
Xinhua News Agency. He says the Chinese hacking had been going on since
March, with some attacks coming from the mainland and others from the
Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
He declined to name the computer security firm that had carried out the work
but said it had done so on a voluntary basis.
Phone calls to Xinhua's press office in Beijing went unanswered. China has
consistently denied that it is behind any hacking, and says that it is also
a victim of hacking.
On the basis of an internal DPP investigation, Huang says the government
attack was a one-off effort originating in the Research, Development and
Evaluation Commission of the executive branch in Taipei.
Commission Deputy Minister Yu Hsieh-sung said the agency was investigating
the DPP allegation but suggested that any hacking from the commission's
offices took place without official sanction.
Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949. China still claims Taiwan as
part of its territory. Beijing has long denounced the DPP for its pro-
independence stance.
Since President Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalists took office in May 2008, he
has moved to improve China ties and facilitated several landmark trade
deals with Beijing.
Beijing is relatively comfortable working with Ma and favors him over Tsai
in the upcoming presidential elections.
Earlier this month, computer security company McAfee Inc. said an unnamed
country was likely behind a wide-ranging series of hacking attacks over the
past five years aimed at stealing troves of data from governments, nonprofit
groups and corporations around the world. McAfee said Taiwan was among the
targets.
McAfee did not name any suspects in the hacking attacks but analysts
suggested it was China — a charge Beijing has denied. |
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