{"id":30741,"date":"2013-03-22T08:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/03\/22\/294744\/cyber-attack-affects-south-koreans\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T07:42:27","slug":"cyber-attack-affects-south-koreans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cyber-attack-affects-south-koreans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cyber attack affects South Koreans\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>A South Korean academic says the recent cyber attack on South Korean television broadcasters and banks has taken a psychological toll on the country\u2019s citizens, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Lim Jong-in, with the Korea University, said on Thursday, \u201cBroadcasters and banks cannot suffer physical or actual damage, but attacking such agencies can greatly affect the public psychologically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lim added that the attack seems to have a \u201cpolitical purpose to cause confusion in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, a cyber attack coming from a single organization partially or entirely crippled computers at major South Korean broadcasters and banks, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Only one of the banks was reported to be back online by Thursday, while all media companies expect a full recovery next week.<\/p>\n<p>Won Jin, an office worker, said, \u201cI\u2019m a citizen of South Korea and a patron of these companies. I can\u2019t help but feel uneasy about the hacking incident\u2026 I hope the situation does not occur again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Korean cyber security experts have traced a malicious code to an IP address in China. However, Seoul suspects that hackers loyal to North Korea were responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The cyber attacks caused major disruptions in commerce, public services and banking across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>People in South Korea rely on a largely cashless system.<\/p>\n<p>GMA\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A South Korean academic says the recent cyber attack on South Korean television broadcasters and banks has taken a psychological toll on the country&rsquo;s citizens, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Lim Jong-in, with the Korea University, said on Thursday, &ldquo;Broadcasters and banks cannot suffer physical or actual damage, but attacking such agencies can greatly affect the public psychologically.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lim added that the attack seems to have a &ldquo;political purpose to cause confusion in our society.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, a cyber attack coming from a single organization partially or entirely crippled computers at major South Korean broadcasters and banks, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Only one of the banks was reported to be back online by Thursday, while all media companies expect a full recovery next week.<\/p>\n<p>Won Jin, an office worker, said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a citizen of South Korea and a patron of these companies. I can&rsquo;t help but feel uneasy about the hacking incident&hellip; I hope the situation does not occur again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>South Korean cyber security experts have traced a malicious code to an IP address in China. However, Seoul suspects that hackers loyal to North Korea were responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The cyber attacks caused major disruptions in commerce, public services and banking across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>People in South Korea rely on a largely cashless system.<\/p>\n<p>GMA\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}