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Pro-Russian hackers reportedly crashed Taiwan Stock Exchange website on Thursday, local media reports
Pro-Russian hackers reportedly crashed the Taiwan Stock Exchange website on Thursday, according to local media reports.
At 3 p.m. Taiwan time, the stock exchange said “a large number of foreign IPs launched invalid queries” on its network, resulting in “unstable service for a short period of time.”
The network returned to normal at 3:22 p.m. local time. The exchange added that the securities market and related businesses are “operating normally without any impact.” Taiwan’s markets close at 1:30 p.m. local time.
While the exchange did not specify the cause of the attack or the perpetrator of the attack, local media reported this was part of a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack on the Taiwanese government by a pro-Russian hacker group.
The attack reportedly targeted Taiwanese government and financial units, including airports and tax bureaus.
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