A man walks past a monitor showing the stocks curves outside the Taiwan Stock Exchange in Taipei on May 12, 2021.
While the exchange did not specify the cause of the attack or the perpetrator of the attack, local media reported this was part of a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack on the Taiwanese government by a pro-Russian hacker group.
The exchange added that the securities market and related businesses are "operating normally without any impact."
China views Taiwan as part of its territory and has not renounced the use of force against the island.
[The land in] the Treaty of Aigun, you [China] could have asked for it back, but you didn't."
Persons:
Radware, William Lai, Lai, — China's
Organizations:
Taiwan Stock Exchange, Taipei Times, of Peking
Locations:
Taipei, Russian, Taiwan, Pacific, China, Russia, Aigun, Manchuria, Japan, Shimonoseki, Republic of China