Military hackers not charged, were testing website's safety: MND
02/07/2021 03:49 PM
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Taipei, Feb. 7 (CNA) Prosecutors recently decided not to press charges against two military officers, who hacked into the defense ministry's website in 2017, as they had been instructed to do so to test the military's counter cyber attack capabilities, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Sunday.
In a statement, the MND's Information, Communications and Electronic Force Command said it had asked the two officers to try to hack the website, as part of a regular drill to detect loopholes in the ministry's firewall.