Attacked by CCP Cyber Army, Taiwan Government Information Security Being Shored Up

Taiwan National Security Bureau (NSB) Director General Tsai De-sheng says cyber-attacks from China have seriously affected Taiwan. The NSB website, for example, has received 3.34 million attacks in the past year, averaging about 10,000 a day. Chen Baizhou/The Epoch Times

Taiwan is facing political, economic, and military coercion from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) amid a significant increase in cyber-attacks on government departments, according to Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang. The completeness of security and protection of government agencies has recently gained public attention.

ROC Defense Department Confirmed Cyber-attack from Beijing

The Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China (ROC), that is, Taiwan, held a press conference on Tuesday, confirming that in addition to military exercises, the Chinese Communist Party (CP) has also launched a cognitive warfare and cyber-attack on major global information websites in Taiwan.

The official website of the Ministry of National Defense was hacked on March 3. According to a search by the response team of the Ministry, the website was flooded with requests for connections from multiple suspicious computer IP addresses at the same time, causing the network traffic to exceed the limit and making it impossible to access the website.