Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Organized Chinese hackers hit official Japan sites
A group of Chinese hackers has launched organized cyber-attacks on dozens of official Web sites in Japan and Taiwan in response to a Japanese attack on a Chinese site last month.
"The newspaper Wen Wei Po said groups organized 1,900 hackers to launch a massive attack on more than 200 official Web sites in Japan and Taiwan on Monday. The attack was scheduled to continue for a week."
The daily said that the hackers were divided into 5 different groups who were each given a different responsibility in hacking the sites.
In the article it said that the daily paper stated that the reason for the hackers to attack all of these websites was due to the sabotage in retaliation for a Japan-based attack on the Web site of the China Federation of Defending Diaoyu Islands on July 25 in which a hacker wrote "the Uotsuri Island belongs to Japan" on the site, the report said. Uotsuri is the largest of the islands, known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands.
It took Japanese officials between a few minutes and a few days to get many of the websites up and revived and working again. They also stated in the article that it would be very hard for them to capture all the hackers.
"The newspaper Wen Wei Po said groups organized 1,900 hackers to launch a massive attack on more than 200 official Web sites in Japan and Taiwan on Monday. The attack was scheduled to continue for a week."
The daily said that the hackers were divided into 5 different groups who were each given a different responsibility in hacking the sites.
In the article it said that the daily paper stated that the reason for the hackers to attack all of these websites was due to the sabotage in retaliation for a Japan-based attack on the Web site of the China Federation of Defending Diaoyu Islands on July 25 in which a hacker wrote "the Uotsuri Island belongs to Japan" on the site, the report said. Uotsuri is the largest of the islands, known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands.
It took Japanese officials between a few minutes and a few days to get many of the websites up and revived and working again. They also stated in the article that it would be very hard for them to capture all the hackers.
