In relation to this, President Lee Jae-myung stated that people must have a sense of alarm and enhance security capabilities. The police have formed a dedicated investigation team and launched a formal investigation.
Here is reporter Yoo Soo-Hwan with the report.
[Reporter]
During a Cabinet meeting, President Lee Jae-myung emphasized, “We must recognize the current situation gravely and maintain a special sense of alarm.”
As hacking methods are becoming more advanced due to the development of artificial intelligence technology, he called for a complete overhaul of the security paradigm.
[President Lee Jae-myung : We must build security capabilities that detect attacks in advance and block them preemptively. We must promptly inspect the security systems of not only the private sector but also national core systems as a whole….]
At a related ministers’ meeting held earlier, measures to prevent the spread of this situation were discussed.
[Prime Minister Han Sung-sook : It is a situation of great concern, given that it could spread beyond the financial sector to the industrial sector, the government, and the public sector.]
The police stated that they have booked the recent financial sector hacking incident as an “act of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, Etc.” and launched a formal investigation.
The Cyber Terror Investigation Unit of the National Police Agency was designated as the dedicated investigation team, and 28 investigators were deployed.
The police plan to clearly uncover through the investigation the identity of the hacking forces and the intrusion path, as well as what information was actually leaked and to what extent.
The police are also checking whether this incident is a matter that must be reported to the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency.
The Serious Crimes Investigation Agency Act stipulates that if a serious crime is recognized, the Head of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency must be notified immediately, and authorities are examining whether this incident falls under a serious crime.
The police explained that although the financial institutions that suffered the hacking damage are not included in “national core infrastructure,” if they fall under “electronic financial infrastructure,” it must be reported to the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency, and therefore they have requested an official interpretation from the Financial Services Commission.
(Photo: Cho Choon-dong, Jung Sang-bo | Video by Kim Jin-won)
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