Overseas ministry’s spokesperson Lee Jae-woong speaks throughout a daily press briefing in Seoul, March 6. Yonhap
Korea has discovered no information of unauthorized entry to the overseas ministry’s e-mail system, a ministry official stated Thursday, following the U.S. announcement of mass indictments towards Chinese language hackers in reference to a world cybercrime marketing campaign.
The U.S. Justice Division introduced Wednesday (native time) that it has charged 12 Chinese language nationals for hacking U.S. companies, media shops and different organizations. Among the many focused entities was Korea’s overseas ministry.
„We’ve got discovered no information of unauthorized entry to the overseas ministry’s e-mail system up to now,“ ministry spokesperson Lee Jae-woong stated in a press briefing.
The indictments embody the costs towards workers of I-Quickly, a non-public hacking firm, accused of hacking e-mail accounts of U.S. spiritual teams, Chinese language dissidents, U.S. authorities companies and overseas ministries of a number of Asian international locations.
The indictment fees {that a} former worker of I-Quickly tried to promote unauthorized entry to a number of inboxes of Korea’s overseas ministry to China’s Ministry of State Safety. (Yonhap)
