Seoul National University Website Hacked... "Investigating Personal Information Leakage Damage"

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Byung-don] It has been confirmed that the Seoul National University website was hacked.

According to Seoul National University on the 30th, from the afternoon of the previous day, some parts of the university's internal websites, including Gwanak Student Dormitory and the Interdisciplinary Major in Artificial Intelligence, experienced disruptions where accessing the sites redirected users to websites selling Viagra and similar products.

This phenomenon mainly occurred when accessing via mobile devices, and in PC environments, access was sometimes completely blocked.

A Seoul National University official stated, "It has been determined that the site was hacked," adding, "Although the database containing the university's major information was not hacked, since there are thousands of internal sites, we are investigating with a security company whether there has been any personal information leakage."

He also said, "After confirming the hacking route and any personal information leakage, we will decide whether to report to the Ministry of Education and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)."

Meanwhile, as of the morning of the same day, if an error occurs when accessing the website, a security page prepared by Seoul National University is displayed. The university's internal website uses two servers alternately, so depending on the time, it is possible to access the original website normally.

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