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Cyber attack feared in series of South Korean government website outages

In Data Breach News, Cyberattack
November 25, 2023

The Straits Times reports:

Another South Korean government-run online service suffered an outage on Nov 24, marking the fourth such failure within the past week.

A website and mobile applications providing online ID services went down, according to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

The breakdown in the government’s e-ID service on Nov 24 comes a day after a website run by the Ministry of Economy and Finance-affiliated Public Procurement Service (PPS) crashed on Nov 23.

The PPS website used by all government institutions for making transactions froze for about an hour before it could be restored.

Read more at The Straits Times.