Taiwan yesterday accused China of spreading disinformation after Chinese public security authorities yesterday attributed a cyberattack on an unnamed technology company to Taipei.
The “overseas hacker organization” behind the attack was “supported by” Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party, authorities in the capital of Guangdong Province said in a statement, based on an initial police investigation.
The National Security Bureau (NSB) in turn accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which it called “a source of global information security threat,” of peddling false information about cyberbreaches.
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The CCP was “manipulating inaccurate information to confuse the outside world, so as to cover up the related cyberhacking acts” and shift the focus of attention, the bureau said in a statement.
China’s Xinhua news agency reported that a police investigation found the hacker organization targeted network systems in more than 10 provinces in China in recent years, including military, energy, hydropower, transportation and government networks.
Xinhua, citing technical experts, said that the attacks were of “low technical level,” their method “simple and crude.”
“The CCP has long carried out cyberhacking and theft of funds from Taiwan, disseminated false information, and carried out cognitive warfare in an attempt to destroy Taiwan’s critical infrastructure and create social division and antagonism,” the NSB said.
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