Taiwan govt websites attacked during Pelosi visit

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The presidential office says it will up its monitoring in the face of 'hybrid information warfare by external forces'.

The websites of the presidential office, foreign ministry and the main government English portal came under attack Tuesday night when Pelosi arrived for a landmark visit that enraged Beijing.

Taiwan's defence ministry also said its website was offline for an hour around midnight Wednesday because of a distributed denial of service attack. According to Taiwan's foreign ministry, the attacks on its website and the government's English portal were linked to Chinese and Russian IP addresses that tried to access the websites up to 8.5 million times per minute.

The presidential office said it would up its monitoring in the face of"hybrid information warfare by external forces".

 

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