(Adnkronos) – In South Korea, the national cybersecurity center, operating under the intelligence service, has raised the alert level from “attention” to “caution” amid fears that hackers could exploit vulnerabilities in the chaos generated by a data center fire that paralyzed government websites. The Guardian reports this.
The fire broke out Friday evening at the National Information Resources Service (Nirs) headquarters in Daejeon, south of Seoul, when a battery caught fire while a group of workers was moving batteries from the server room to the basement. To date, the South Korean agency Yonhap reports, based on information from authorities, 87 of the 647 digitized government services affected by the fire have been restored.
