Tokyo accuses Chinese hackers have hacked the website of a
major Japanese ministry.
Internet site of a major Japanese ministry and 18 other
Japanese sites were targeted by attacks in recent days apparently Chinese,
Japanese authorities announced Wednesday amid tensions between the two
countries, according to AFP. On most of these sites have appeared on the
Chinese property proclaim messages Diaoyu islands controlled by Japan and
called the Senkaku, police said in a statement.
She added that about 300 Japanese organizations were
designated as potential targets by Honker Union, a group of Chinese hackers.
Among the targeted sites listed at the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communication, a strategic management dealing particularly with the
statistics, post, telecommunications and local communities.
Internet website of the Department of Statistics of the
Ministry was targeted by a denial of service attack.
At the height of the attack Sunday afternoon, 95 percent of
traffic to the site came from China, explained the minister, Tatsuo Kawabata,
quoted by Kyodo news agency.
Tension has risen sharply in recent days between Japan and
China, after the Japanese government nationalizes the Senkaku islands,
uninhabited and located 200 kilometers northeast of Taiwan, which also claims,
and 400 miles west of Okinawa (southern Japan).
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