During a series of cyber-assaults against corporate and government websites, the most recently attempted online assault targeted South Korea's Unification Ministry although there was no report of damage. Yonhap News Agency reported this on August 8, 2011.
An official named Kim Young-pil at the center for online safety of the ministry said that the hackers, with the help of Chinese Internet Protocol addresses, installed malicious software on the electronic mail account belonging to an assistant of a lawmaker so they could infringe upon the Unification Ministry of Seoul. 'Today' published this on August 10, 2011.
Kim further said that the National Intelligence Service notified of the attempted assault to the ministry. Subsequently, the center for cyber-security directed the assistant for resetting his password alternatively deactivating his e-mail for arresting any further interruption to the ministry's site.
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