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[Financial News] Hacking attempts targeting the court’s computer network have surged this year. In just eight months, the number of attacks detected has already far exceeded the total recorded throughout last year.
According to data submitted on the 4th by the National Court Administration of the Supreme Court of Korea to the office of Kim Dong-ah, a Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker on the Legislation and Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly, the court’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system detected 239,145 hacking attempts from January through August.
That figure was about 1.7 times the 141,528 hacking attempts recorded throughout last year. Compared with the 101,205 attempts detected from January through August last year, the number rose nearly 2.4 times.
In the past, monthly hacking attempts generally did not exceed 20,000. This year, however, the number surpassed 20,000 every month from February through August, except in January.
On an annual basis, hacking attempts targeting the court’s computer network declined from 142,514 in 2021 to 126,212 in 2022 and 114,070 in 2023. The figure fell further to 98,171 in 2024 before rising sharply again this year.
The court’s computer network has also experienced an actual personal information breach in the past. It was confirmed that the personal information of about 18,000 people was leaked through hacking between June 2021 and January 2023.
However, an internal audit conducted by the court last year after the incident found that the measures taken against those involved did not amount to severe disciplinary action.
The audit resulted in a departmental warning being issued to the Information Security Officer’s Office of the National Court Administration. At the time, no disciplinary action was taken against three people, including the director of the Seoul High Court’s Information and Computer Management Bureau, while five received severe reprimands. Two others who had already retired were classified as unable to be disciplined.
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