Kaohsiung City EPB Website Hacked on Aug. 4 高市環保局飲用水網站遭駭 首頁變五星旗
A number of websites in Taiwan have come under attack from hackers since Aug. 3, with China's five-star flag appearing on the Kaohsiung City Environmental Protection Bureau's drinking water website on Aug. 4. The city government immediately shut down the site. The sites of central agencies went offline on Aug. 5 as well.
China's five-star flag is displayed prominently on the Kaohsiung City Environmental Protection Bureau's drinking water website. The site was hacked on the night of the 4th. The city government immediately reported the hack, shut down the site and began checking its other websites.
Kao Tsung-yung, Deputy Director, Environmental Protection Bureau, Kaohsiung City: “We will take the website down for now. We will also continue looking for answers and restoring (the website). We publish a great deal of environmental data every month for the public. This data transfer method often gets targeted by hackers.”
The site was not restored for over 12 hours. Police say the attack came from overseas.
Lin Chien-chun, Captain, Technology Crime Investigation, Kaohsiung City: “The hacker's IP address was overseas. That's all we know. We don't know which country.”
Police say if they can locate and arrest the hacker, the hacker may face 1.5 times the maximum penalty of five years behind bars and NT$600,000 in fines because the target was a government website. At this time, police do not know where the attack originated. The websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Defense experienced technical difficulties on the 5th as well. According to the government, DDoS attacks on the websites of Taiwan Power, Taiwan Railways, the Presidential Office, the two ministries, and convenience store chains began on the 3rd and are ongoing.
中國五星旗的國旗排滿頁面，下排卻出現「業務管理」、「飲用水管理法規」的字眼，這是高雄市環保局飲用水網站，4日晚間9時左右遭駭客入侵，放上五星旗，市府立刻報案，也將網頁關閉，並同步清查其他市府網站。
高市環保局副局長高宗永表示：「會將網頁先行下架，而且持續追查原因並積極來修復，環保局每個月都有大量的環境監測數據要上傳，來供民眾查詢，這種傳輸方式，很容易成為駭客攻擊的目標。」
環保局遭駭的網頁到上午10時左右還沒復原，已經關閉超過12個小時，警方初步清查，發現入侵網站的IP位置來自境外。
高市刑警大隊科偵隊長林建均說明：「經我們初步研判，這個入侵的IP是來自於境外，目前只是境外，沒有辦法釐清是哪一個國家。」
警方強調這行為可能涉犯刑法妨礙電腦使用罪，最高處5年以下有期徒刑或60萬元以下罰金，侵入對象是公務機關還會加重二分之一刑責，但這次入侵的境外IP是否為中國，警方還在清查。而其他政府官網，上午登入外交部網頁顯示錯誤，國防部官網則久久無法連線，這情況從裴洛西訪台後就不斷出現，台電也證實被網路攻擊了數百萬次，3日起連續3天，包括台電、台鐵、總統府、國防部、外交部甚至到便利商店等民間單位都曾遭駭客入侵。
