Ruling party staggers in election site hacking scandal

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By Kim Eun-jung
YONHAP NEWS
2011-12-05

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- Opposition parties ratcheted up attacks on the 
ruling Grand National Party on Monday over revelations that an aide to a 
GNP lawmaker organized a hacking attack on the Web site of the state 
election watchdog.

The National Election Commission (NEC)'s Web site came under a 
large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for two hours on 
the morning of Oct. 26, the day of by-elections that included the Seoul 
mayoral race.

Nearly 40 days after the incident, police arrested a former aide to GNP 
legislator Choi Ku-sik and three Web site administrators Sunday on 
suspicions of mobilizing about 200 virus-carrying computers to swarm the 
NEC's server with massive traffic.

Choi denied any involvement in the hacking scheme allegedly orchestrated 
by his 27-year-old aide, surnamed Kong, who recently left his jobs 
citing health problems.

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